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Production Catalogue 2011 68 1 About bord scannán na héireann / the irish film board

dBor Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board (IFB) is Ireland’s national film agency. The agency supports and promotes the Irish film industry and the use of Ireland as a location for international production.

‘The combination of ambitious creatively driven Irish projects and high profile international productions all working in Ireland in the last year is set to continue into the year ahead as a result of on going Government support. Irish producers, directors, writers, actors, and technicians not only benefit from the employment this level of activity represents, but their growing international reputation for professionalism, creativity and energy lays the foundation for sustainable future growth.’

James Morris Chairman, Bord Scannán na hÉireann/ the Irish Film Board. 2 Chief Executive Simon Perry

Business Affairs Deputy Chief Executive Teresa McGrane Financial Controller Celine Forde Introduction 04 Business & Legal Affairs Executive Mark Byrne Highlights 06 Industry Affairs Executive Patrick O’Neill Features / Coming Soon 14 Accounts Co-ordinator Albert Nobbs 14 Suzanne Keane (Part-time) Citadel 16

Production & Development Come on Eileen 18 Production Executives Dollhouse 20 Alan Maher Earthbound 22 Emma Scott Grabbers 24 Development Executive Losing It 26 Andrew Meehan Lotus Eaters 28 Production & Development Co-ordinator Parked 30 Sarah Dillon Stella Days 32 Applications & Schemes Co-ordinator Superhero 34 Jill McGregor The Other Side of Sleep 36

The Pier 38 Marketing Marketing & Communications Executive The Rafters 40 Louise Ryan Features / Creative Co-Productions 44 Irish Film Commission Essential Killing 44 Film Commissioner Istanbul 45 Naoise Barry Lapland Odyssey 46 Deputy Film Commissioner Perfect Sense 47 Mags O’Sullivan The Last Furlong 48 SVP Irish Film Commission US The Moth Diaries 49 Jonathan Loughran This Must Be The Place 50

Administration Executive Assistant Features / Released 2010 52 Niamh O’Reilly His & Hers 52 Administrative Assistant Ondine 53 Aileen McCauley Perrier’s Bounty 54 Savage 55 Board Members All Good Children 56 James Morris (Chair) Cherrybomb 57 Lesley McKimm Colony 58 Tristan Orpen Lynch Eamon 59 Kevin Moriarty Foxes 60 Kirsten Sheridan Pyjama Girls 61 Johnny Gogan Barry Grace Swansong – The Story of Occi Byrne 62 The Daisy Chain 63 Co-ordinated by Suzanne Murray The Fading Light 64 3 CONTENTS

The Pipe 65 Headspace 94 Trafficked 66 Hearing Silence 94 Zonad 67 Loft 94 Needle Exchange 96 Documentary 70 Ol’ One Eye 96 Knuckle 70 Paperman 96 The Summit 71 Pentecost 96 Aftermath 72 Return to Roscoff 96 Apples of Golan 72 Signs 96 Art Will Save the World 72 Spanx & Eve 98 Barbaric Genius 72 Special Ed 98 For One Night Only 74 The Christening 98 Living Colour 74 The Invention of the Lightbulb 98 Martin Hayes in Five Ways 74 The Irish Dog Whisperer 98 Patrick Ireland 74 The Meaning of Eggistence 98 Men of Arlington 76 The Monk and the Fly 100 Off The Beaten Track 76 The Night Nurse 100 The Liberties 76 TV Dinner 100 Stand Up: My Best Friend 78 The Parting 100 What We Leave In Our Wake 78 Shoe 100 Wonderland 78 Film Directory 104 Animation 82 I’m a Monster 82 Jo and Jack 82 Legends of Valhalla 82 Punky 84 Santa’s Apprentice 84 Tilly & Friends 84

Television / Drama 88 Corp & Anam 88

Shorts 90 As The Light Leaks In 92 Blinky™ 92 Blue Rinse 92 Collaboration Horizontale 92 Crossing Salween 92 Daylight Saving Time 92 Flatbed 94 Dummy 94 Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 94 INTRoDUCTION

Amid the hard times that became The first is the appearance of an Ireland’s lot in 2010, Irish arts and artists impressive number of new women continued to sprinkle the world with the directors – a first for Ireland – with words, sounds and images that denote confident voices and specific tastes: Irish culture – so that however bad the Margaret Corkery (Eamon), Carmel news and the numbers were, people the Winters (Snap), Juanita Wilson (As If I Am world over could still catch the feel, the Not There), Alicia Duffy (All Good Children), look, the spirit of Ireland and think of it Finola Geraghty (Come On Eileen); and as a singular and vibrant place. By such Rebecca Daly, Alexandra McGuinness, means are diplomatic paths smoothed, Steph Green and Norah McGettigan, all of commercial deals rendered more whom are, or soon will be, at work on their agreeable, and tourism choices made. first feature films.

Film played its part. New Irish feature The other development is the result of films were selected for major festivals a Bord Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film in Cannes, Tribeca and Toronto; Irish Board (IFB) initiative (undertaken with animation was a strong contender at the IFI and Access Cinema) to ensure the 2010 Academy Awards (The Secret of exhibition in Ireland of certain Irish Kells, Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty); films which do not find a commercial there was an Oscar-nominated Irish short distributor but which, on the evidence of film (The Door); and four Irish feature attention paid to them by international documentaries were released in Irish festivals and criticism, are of manifest cinemas during the year, one of them (His cultural importance. We have started to & Hers) turning out to be a palpable hit, see proof of the notion that the value of not just in Dublin but across the whole a film can be measured in two ways: by country, and all of them generating press the size of its audience (box-office), but and industry attention overseas. As Irish also by the intensity of engagement of its producers become ever more ingenious audience with the subject-matter and the at holding down the costs of their filmmaker’s treatment of it, particularly manufacture, the ‘invisible’ but very real when s/he is there to present and discuss earnings derived from the showing of Irish the film. films like these to audiences of many other races and tongues become exponentially More than anything, I am astonished more significant. by the sheer volume of work that Irish filmmakers have achieved over recent Never tempted to be satisfied with years. If Ireland has been able to make such gains as have been made in Irish more rather than fewer films in the filmmaking during my five-year tenure latter half of the decade – with none of here, there are nonetheless two recent the kind of support from television that developments that I regard as strongly other European film industries can take positive. In different ways, I count on for granted – this has been thanks to them to help to create a new relationship consistent funding increases granted to between Irish cinema and Irish audiences. the IFB by the Irish government, to no

4 less consistent enhancements made to and the more vulnerable it is, the more the level of tax incentive benefit, and to it has to brighten and burnish the image Irish producers’ energetic pursuit of co- of its own self and develop film for its production opportunities throughout the national purpose.” whole of Europe. That was part of a lecture, delivered under An interesting and, I believe, appropriate the auspices of the National Film Institute balance was struck in 2010 between the of Ireland by the Scottish documentary selective, predominantly cultural support filmmaker, John Grierson, at the Gresham provided by the IFB and the economic Hotel in Dublin on 11th May 1948. More support available through the Section than 60 years on, the implied task seems 481 tax incentive. There was no shortage much the same. of high-end, foreign television drama shot in Ireland during the year (Camelot, Simon Perry Primeval, Treasure Island, Neverland and Chief Executive more), which brought vital employment and industrial benefits and for which the new level of Section 481 benefit alone acted as sufficient inducement. So while the tax incentive generated much-needed economic gains, the IFB’s resources could be fully applied to Irish films – and to long- term investment in Irish filmmakers, the national assets of the future.

I read the following recently:

“Many countries are worried today about the vast power of film in the hands of one or two great countries. They see their boundaries invaded by images and ideas which are alien to them. They want to preserve and develop their own cultures. They want also to regard the flow of culture as necessarily a two-way flow in which they will have their own opportunity of expressing themselves to others. Realising this, they feel that it is vital for their cultural defences that, no matter how small they are, they should make something of the cinema within their own borders. It has, in fact, become something of a paradox, that the smaller a nation is

5 OSCAR NOMINATED The Secret of Kells Primeval films on location in Ireland 6 HIGHLIGHTS ‘10

January • HIS & HERS screens at the Sundance Film Festival. Kate McCullagh and Michael Lavelle win the prize for Excellence in Cinematography • Four Irish shorts are selected for Clermont Ferrand – MOORE STREET MASALA, A FILM FROM MY PARISH – 6 FARMS, THE POLISH LANGUAGE, PLEASE SAY SOMETHING • IFB funded Irish language series NA CLOIGNE airs on TG4 OSCMichARa NOMINel FassbenderATED The DOOR SNAP • Irish short THE BASKET CASE wins at Fantaspoa Film Festival • Steven Soderbergh’s HAYWIRE starts filming in Dublin • ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS premieres at the Slamdance Film Festival in the US and receives a Jury Special Mention • ONDINE is picked up for US Distribution • Eleven Irish shorts are selected for the Heart of Gold festival in Australia • PARKED goes into production

February • The Irish film industry receives five Oscar nominations which include nominations for Best Animation Feature (THE SECRET OF KELLS), Best OSCSaArRa hNOMIN BolgAerTED Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty Live Action Short (THE DOOR) and Best Short Animation (GRANNY O’GRIMMS SLEEPING BEAUTY) • EAMON opens in selected cinemas • Irish short CORDUROY is officially selected for Generation 14Plus at the Berlinale • The Irish Film and Television Awards winners include THE ECLIPSE, ONDINE, THE SECRET OF KELLS and HIS & HERS while Tomm Moore, director of THE SECRET OF KELLS picks up the IFB Rising Star Award • HIS & HERS wins the Audience Award at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival while both HIS & HERS and THE FADING LIGHT win Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards • HASAN EVERYWHERE wins two Digital Media Awards Tomm Moore picks up the IFB Rising Star Award at the IFTAs My Brothers

6 Primeval films on location in Ireland 7 March • Irish animator Richard Baneham wins an Academy Award® for his work on AVATAR • Five Irish films are released in cinemas – ONDINE, PERRIER’S BOUNTY, ZONAD, CHERRYBOMB, FOXES • Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) and the Producers Guild of America (PGA) sign an agreement in LA to encourage a greater number of co-production opportunities across all genres in film, television and animation • Irish animation THE SECRET OF KELLS opens in the US to rave reviews • OUTCAST and HIS & HERS and the Irish animated short THE POLISH LANGUAGE are officially selected for the The Eclipse SXSW festival in the US • HAPPY EVER AFTERS is released in the UK while THE Minister Cullen and Amy Adams on the ‘Leap Year’ setSNAP ECLIPSE is released in the US • ROY Scoops Best Children’s Drama at the Royal Television Society Awards in London • HIS & HERS and HORSES are selected for Hot Docs in Toronto • The short animation DONKEY is officially selected for the Oberhausen Festival • ITV drama PRIMEVAL begins shooting on location in Ireland • THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP goes into production • The Oscar Wilde event celebrates Irish film talent in LA and honours cinematographer Seamus McGarvey and actress Saoirse Ronan.

April • Irish short ATLANTIC picks up two nominations for the California Independent Film Festival and is selected Kisses Ondine for the Newport Beach Festival and Manchester Kinofilm Festival • SNAP, MY BROTHERS, ONDINE and ZONAD are officially selected to screen at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival • THE CHRISTMAS WARD directed by Allyn Quigley from IADT Dun Laoghaire wins the IFB Best Short Film Award at the National Student Media Awards • The shorts BYE BYE NOW and IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK pick up awards at IFI Stranger Than Fiction Festival • THE SECRET OF KELLS scoops Best European Feature at the British Animation Awards • BYE BYE NOW is selected for competition at the Krakow Film Festival in Poland • The animated series GARTH & BEV along with the animated shorts HASAN EVERYWHERE, DONKEY and GRANNY O’GRIMM’S SLEEPING BEAUTY are all officially Whatever Turns You On My Brothers selected for Cartoons on the Bay Festival in Italy and GRANNY O’GRIMM’S SLEEPING BEAUTY scoops the Best Short Film Award and Best Animated Character • THE SECRET OF KELLS and IF I SHOULD FALL BEHIND pick up awards at the Celtic Media Festival • The short musical MR.FOLEY wins Best ‘Sound-Scape’ Award at the Dresden International Short Film Festival • The SoGo Dublin Arts Festival debuts in Dublin city centre and includes a special screening of ONCE in Waltons music store as well as Irish short film screenings across a host of locations • A SHINE OF RAINBOWS goes on release in selected cinemas in the US 7 8 May • ALL GOOD CHILDREN is officially selected for the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival “Visually arresting • yKatie Holl of Blinder Films is Ireland’s EFP Producer locations that on the Move • RUNNERS picks up the Best International Short Film haven’t been overused at the Malibu Film Festival • SNAP is chosen for Variety Critics Choice at the in movies? Check. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival • TRAFFICKED starring Ruth Negga is released in Highly skilled and selected cinemas • NA CLOIGNE wins two awards at the Oireachtas experienced crews? Communication Awards Check. Financial • HIS & HERS, and three short documentaries BYE BYE NOW, IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK, and THE HERD incentive that are officially selected to screen at the Silverdocs Film Festival in the U.S. actually works? • CHIPPERS wins Best Documentary at Concorso Memorie Migranti in Italy Check. Fond memories • THE PIER, CORP & ANAM and THE LAST FURLONG go into production and great footage? Check. In other words, June • OUTCAST, FOXES, NOTHING PERSONAL and the short if you’re a filmmaker, films ALIBI and THE POLISH LANGUAGE screen at the Edinburgh Film Festival Ireland rocks.” • The IFB lead a trade mission of Irish producers to the ‘Produced By’ Conference in LA Steven Soderbergh • RUNNERS is selected as a finalist at the Producers Guild of America’s “Producers Challenge” during the ‘Produced By’ Conference • The animations OLD FANGS and MISS REMARKABLE ATLLhe G TakOODe CHILDREN OFFICIALLY SELECTED FOR THE & HER CAREER are officially selected for the 50th DIRECTORS FORTNIGHT AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL Annecy International Animation Film Festival where MISS REMARKABLE & HER CAREER picks up the Fipresci Award • ZONAD is released on DVD in Ireland • FATHER & SON which filmed on location in Ireland broadcasts on ITV • A major celebration of Irish film takes place in China at the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) and Beijing International Movie Festival (BIMF). ONDINE and ZONAD are nominated for the prestigious Golden Goblet Awards at SIFF which is Asia’s equivalent of the Academy Awards. ONDINE picks up the Golden Goblet for Best Cinematography • HIS & HERS is released in Irish cinemas • Eleven Irish short films are officially selected for the Palm Springs International Shortfest Lenny Abrahamson and Bobby Farrelly at the Give Me Direction Screenwriting Conference • Irish animation TV series GARTH & BEV gains strong international sales • BYE BYE NOW scoops the Audience Award at the Silverdocs Festival in the U.S • The IFB and JDIFF Screenwriting Conference ‘Give Me Direction’ takes place with guests including Bobby Farrelly, Lenny Abrahamson, Sharon Horgan and Pat McCabe amongst others. • CAMELOT begins shooting in Ardmore Studios • The IFB, Animation Ireland and IADT organise a trade mission to Singapore to explore co-production and education opportunities. 8 His & Hers Gala Screening 9 July • ‘Frameworks’ and ‘Short Shorts’ premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh. THE RUNWAY wins Best Irish Feature and THE PIPE wins Best Documentary • KISSES is released in the US • THE TUDORS is nominated for four Emmy Awards • HIS & HERS, THE SECRET OF KELLS and ZONAD are selected for the Traverse Festival • HAPPY EVER AFTERS is released on DVD in Ireland • Irish documentary COLONY is released in selected cinemas • The short musical MOORE STREET MASALA and Margaret Corkery, the animated short PILGRIM screen at Festival of Director of ‘Eamon’, World Cultures • Irish short film programmes screen at the Oxygen This Must Be The Place starring Sean Penn music festival shoots on location in Dublin • ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS is the recipient of the WorkBook Project Discovery and Distributor Award in the U.S • THE RAFTERS goes into production

August • HIS & HERS scoops Best Non-Fiction Foreign Jury Award at the Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan and is praised by Michael Moore • HORSES is shortlisted for the Grierson Award in the UK • CHERRYBOMB is released on DVD in Ireland • OUTCAST is selected to screen at horror film festival Film4 Frightfest • EAMON, NOTHING PERSONAL and HIS & HERS are all selected for the Norwegian International Film Festival “One of the most • Production begins in Dublin on THIS MUST BE THE PLACE starring Sean Penn, Frances McDormand moving and original and Simon Delaney • ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS picks up the Vortex films I’ve seen this Sci-fi and Fantasy Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival year. In a summer of • THE TUDORS picks up two prestigious Emmy Awards tired and stale movies for Outstanding Costumes for a Series for Joan Bergin and Outstanding Art Direction for a Single- from Hollywood, HIS Camera Series for Tom Conroy • PYJAMA GIRLS goes on release in selected & HERS is a breath of Irish cinemas fresh air blowing in

frNothinomg Person thael midlands of Ireland.”

Michael Moore

9 10 September • THE PIPE, AS IF I AM NOT THERE, SENSATION and the Irish co-productions LAPLAND ODYSSEY and “The Irish film industry ESSENTIAL KILLING are selected for the Toronto has the potential to International Film Festival • SWANSONG – THE STORY OF OCCI BYRNE is sustain and increase released in selected Irish cinemas • SAVAGE is released in Irish cinemas employment in the • ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS screens theatrically in Los Angeles coming years and • Hollywood celebrates Irish film at the LA Irish Film Festival make a far greater • SENSATION, THE PIPE and ESSENTIAL KILLING as contribution to well as the short animation OLD FANGS screen at the BFI London Film Festival the economy than • Production begins on Canadian-Irish big screen adaptation of THE MOTH DIARIES as well as LOSING the cost of the tax IT, DOLLHOUSE, SUPERHERO and LOTUS EATERS •  A selection of Irish films screen at the Helsinki relief. I consider the Film Festival • Conor Horgan, director of ONE HUNDRED existence of section MORNINGS wins the New Director’s Award at the 481 to be vital to San Francisco Irish Film Festival • IFB hosts a delegation of producers from the the future of the FremantleMedia Group to visit Ireland • MISS REMARKABLE & HER CAREER picks up industry.” the Nordic Short Film Award at the 21st Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport • Mary Hanafin TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Mary Hanafin (TD) Sport visits the set in Dublin of NEVERLAND, an original mini-series commission for Sky Movies HD starring Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel and Bob Hoskins Miss remarkable & her career October • THE SECRET OF KELLS is released in cinemas across the UK • CIRCUS FANTASTICUS picks up eight awards at the Slovenian Film Festival including Best Film and Best Director • THE FADING LIGHT is selected to screen at the Pusan Festival • FIVE DAY SHELTER is selected for the International Rome Film Festival • dThe Dinar Film Festival in France hosts a special focus on Irish film • HIS & HERS is released on DVD in Ireland and tops the DVD charts • ‘Virtual Cinema’ premieres at the Darklight Film Festival and the IFB sponsored symposium Minister Mary Hanafin visits the Neverland set takes place

10 Domhnall Gleeson who starred in Sensation is selected as European Shooting Star 11 November • THE PIPE, CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION and BURMA SOLDIER are all officially selected for the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and THE PIPE receives an Honourable Mention from the Green Screen Jury • ROY receives two BAFTA British Academy Children’s Award nominations in the categories of Best Drama and Best Writer • ‘Signatures’ and ‘Reality Bites’ premiere at the Corona Cork Film Festival • Irish Docs BURMA SOLDIER and ALIBI are selected for the Sheffield Documentary Festival • The Door PARKED has its world premiere at Torino Film Festival Triage The Guard selected as one of the opening films • SAVAGE receives a Special Mention at Leeds Festival of the Sundance Film Festival 2011 • James Nesbitt picks up the Best Actor Award at NYC Horror Film Festival for his role in OUTCAST • STELLA DAYS, EARTHBOUND and CITADEL go into production • TREASURE ISLAND a two-part drama commissioned by Sky 1 and ABC and starring Eddie Izzard films on location in Ireland

December • THE GUARD, KNUCKLE and PERFECT SENSE are selected for Official Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2011 • GRABBERS and ALBERT NOBBS go into production in Donegal and Dublin respectively • Upcoming Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson fights off stiff competition to be selected as a European Shoe shortlisted for Best Short Film Academy Award Shooting Star at the Berlinale 2011 • The Capital Irish Film Festival takes place in Washington DC. PYJAMA GIRLS wins the Audience Award and MY BROTHERS wins the Critics Choice Award • THE PIPE is released in Irish cinemas • Two Irish short films are shortlisted for Academy Award® nominations – one of which is the Signature short SHOE • KISSES is nominated for a US Independent Spirit Award • NOTHING PERSONAL receives two European Film Award nominations for European Discovery – Prix Fipresci and for Best European Actress (Lotte Verbeek) • IBEC Audiovisual Report published reveals record Granny O’Grimms SleepinGlenng Bea Cutylose on set of Albert Nobbs expenditure levels for the independent film, television and animation sector • Irish director Juanita Wilson is named among Variety’s top ten directors to watch for 2011 • KISSES and THE SECRET OF KELLS are named as two of 2010’s highlights by the LA Times

11 12 13 FEATURES / COMING SOON ALBERT NOBBS

19th century Ireland: a woman with no husband or family and without work would face a bleak life of poverty and loneliness. Albert, a shy butler who keeps himself to himself, has been hiding a deep secret for years – ‘he’ is a woman who has had to dress and behave as a man all her life in order to escape this fate. When handsome painter Hubert Page arrives at the hotel, Albert is inspired to try and escape the false life she has created for herself. She gathers her nerves to court beautiful, saucy young maid Helen in whom she thinks she’s found a soul-mate – but Helen’s eye is on a new arrival: handsome, bad-boy Joe, the new handy- man. As Albert dares to hope that she might one day live a normal life, we catch a glimpse of a free-spirited woman who is caught in the wrong time … This humorous but ultimately poignant ensemble story about life ‘below-stairs’ is nothing less than Gosford Park meets Boys Don’t Cry.

Director Rodrigo Garcia Producers Alan Moloney, Glenn Close, Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn Script John Banville, Glenn Close, Gabriella Prekop Photography Michael McDonough Main Cast Glenn Close, Aaron Johnson, Brendan Gleeson, Brenda Fricker, Mia Wasikowska, Janet McTeer, Bronagh Gallagher Irish Location Dublin

Production Company Parallel Film Productions Tel +353 1 236 0757 [email protected] Financiers IFB, Chrysalis Sales Agent WestEnd Films Tel +44 207 494 8300 info@westendfilms. com Status Delivery late 2011

14 15 CITADEL

Tommy Cowley is a man inflicted with chronic agoraphobia since the day his wife was attacked and he was unable to protect her. Living in a council estate from hell, he finds himself terrorized by a gang of twisted feral children, who are intent on taking his baby daughter.

With the help of a kindly nurse and a vigilante priest, Tommy learns the nightmarish truth behind the existence and behaviour of these hooded children. He also learns that to be free of his fears he must face the demons of his past and enter the one place he fears the most – the abandoned tower block known as the Citadel.

Director/Script Ciaran Foy Producers Katie Holly, Brian Coffey Photography Tim Fleming Editor Tony Kearns Production Design Tom Sayer Main Cast Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo Irish Location Dublin Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Bl!nder Films Tel +353 1 677 8066 [email protected], Sigma Films Financiers IFB, Creative Scotland Status Delivery mid 2011

16 17 18 COME ON EILEEN

Eileen is a mother of two children, both about to fly the nest. Summer stretches out in front of the family – everyone has plans except Eileen. Her alcohol problems are behind her, but she’s alone. Then a new relationship erupts into her life, and briefly she blooms. But Bill, the new boyfriend, is a pot-smoking, failed sportsman with problems of his own.

Their fling opens the door to insecurity and paranoia for Eileen, and one day under the guise of celebrating her new “love” she has a drink. Once she starts she doesn’t stop…

Director/Script Finola Geraghty Producers Finola Geraghty, Katie Holly, Kieron J. Walsh Photography Derrick Peters, Candida Richardson Editor Frank Reid Main Cast Jackie Howe, Felix Malcom Still, Mercedes Grower, Stephen Taylor, Noel Fielding Running Time 91 minutes

Production Companies Bl!nder Films Tel +353 1 677 8066 [email protected], Foal Film Productions Financier IFB Status Delivered

19 DOLLHOUSE

Six lunatics, one night, one secret, no control.

A group of street teens break into a house in a rich Dublin suburb for a night of partying and whatever they can get away with. The games darken into real confrontations that run even deeper when it turns out that this is not just any house – there are reasons why they’re there. By morning there are revelations that split a family apart and betray the desperation of young people searching for something solid in a world adrift.

Director/Script Kirsten Sheridan Producer John Wallace Photography Colin Downey, Ross McDonnell Main Cast Seana Kerslake, Shane Curry, Ciaran McCabe, Johnny Ward, Kate Stanley-Brennan, Jack Reynor Irish Location Dublin Running Time 80 minutes

Production Company The Factory Tel +353 1 427 0909 [email protected] Financiers IFB, Lightstream Pictures Status Delivery late 2011

20 21 EARTHBOUND

Joe Norman wants the ordinary things in life: a job he doesn’t hate, a place to call home, and a nice girl to settle down with. He’s just like the rest of us – until his father, on his death-bed, reveals that Joe is an alien and has a duty to procreate and continue his dying species.

Joe meets and falls in love with Maria, but how does he tell her who is really is? Moreover, with intergalactic bounty hunters in hot pursuit of him, Joe is badly in need of help. But then Maria discovers the truth hidden in Joe’s old home movies, and together they plan ways to fight off the villains and enable Joe to escape to his home planet.

Director/Script Alan Brennan Producers Heidi Madsen, Jacqueline Kerrin, Dominic Wright Photography PJ Dillon Editor Barry Moen Production Design David Wilson Main Cast Rafe Spall, Jenn Murray Irish Location Dublin Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Ripple World Pictures Tel +353 1 635 1010 [email protected], www.earthboundmovie.info, Paper Dreams Financiers IFB, Egg Post Production Status Delivery mid 2011

22 23 GRABBERS

In a comic twist on the classic suburban horror- flick, a sleepy Irish fishing village is forced to defend itself against blood-sucking sea-monsters using an unlikely weapon – alcohol.

The peace of the Erin Island community is shattered by an invasion of giant squid-like creatures known as ‘grabbers’, which start picking off the villagers. It turns out that the only way to avoid being attacked is by being drunk. Ruggedly handsome but washed-up local policeman O’Shea is forced to sober up for the first time in a long time in order to take command of the situation, while uptight, tee-total policewoman Lisa, who has been reluctantly assigned to partner him, must get smashed along with everyone else in order to protect the island from tentacled, fang- jawed, barb-tongued amphibians.

Director Jon Wright Producers Martina Niland, Tracy Brimm, Kate Myers, Piers Tempest, Eduardo Levy, James Martin Script Kevin Lehane Photography Trevor Forrest Editor Matt Plattsmills Production Design Tom McCullagh Main Cast Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey Irish Locations Down, Donegal Running Time 100 minutes

Production Companies Samson Films +353 1 667 0533 [email protected], Forward Films Financiers IFB, UK Film Council, Limelight, High Treason, Northern Ireland Screen Distributor Sony Pictures (UK/Ireland) Sales Agent The Salt Company Tel +44 207 535 6714 [email protected] Status Delivery mid 2011

24 25 LOSING IT

For as long as she can remember, Lena, a 15-year- old Nuyorican girl living in the Bronx, has watched her mother Lucy fall in love with one man after another and end up heartbroken. But Victor, her mother’s latest boyfriend, is the first to make a move on Lena herself. Lena sets out to expose him and, in another first, to spare her mother the pain of yet another heartbreak.

But the plan backfires, and Lena finds herself trapped in a love triangle with Victor and her mother which will bring out some bitter home truths and force Lena, in a few short weeks, to leave adolescence behind and become a woman.

Director/Script Macdara Vallely Producers David Collins, Paul Miller, Gigi Dement Photography Jarin Blaschke Main Cast Yainis Ynoa, Rosa Arrendondo, Flaco Navaja, Gleendilys Inoa Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Samson Films Tel +353 1 667 0533 [email protected], Escape Pictures Financiers IFB, Werner Films Status Delivery early 2011

26 27 LOTUS EATERS

For Alice, ex-model and struggling actress; for Charlie, a sweet and gifted musician who has lost all control of his life; and for Felix, with nothing in his head and a teenage girlfriend whom he’s been trying to leave since the moment they met…. the choices are endless and the party never stops.

But beauty and privilege are both skin-deep and you can’t let life go on happening to you forever. Alice, Charlie and Felix are in free fall, irresistibly lovely but utterly self-destructive, hurtling towards events that will overwhelm their fragile friendships and even destroy their lives.

Director Alexandra McGuiness Producers Morgan Bushe, Mark Lee Script Alexandra McGuinness, Brendan Grant Photography Gareth Munden Editor Bert Hunger Music Birger Clausen Main Cast Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Benn Northover, Cynthia Fortune Ryan Irish Locations Wicklow, Westmeath Running Time 92 minutes

Production Companies Fastnet Films Tel +353 1 478 9566 [email protected], McGuinnesslee Financier IFB Status Delivery early 2011

28 29 PARKED

Fred Daly lives a quiet, lonely life on the coast of Dublin Bay – in his car. One day Cathal, a dope- smoking 21-year-old with a positive attitude, arrives and becomes his neighbour. He seems determined to make Fred sort his life out. As Cathal’s infectious energy rubs off on him, Fred tackles and beats the welfare system, swims to keep himself in shape, and makes friends with a music teacher who lives alone nearby.

But their tentative romance falters when Fred can’t find a way to tell Jules where and how he lives. Meanwhile Cathal’s safety, and ultimately his life, are threatened by his escalating drug habit. Fred will find a way out of his car park and back to the noise and warmth of a life shared with other people, but it will have been a close call.

Director Darragh Byrne Producers Jacqueline Kerrin, Dominic Wright, Aleksi Bardy Script Ciaran Creagh Photography John Conroy Editor Guy Montgomery Production Design Owen Power Main Cast Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan, Milka Ahlroth, Stuart Graham, Michael McElhatton, David Wilmot Irish Location Dublin Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Ripple World Pictures Tel +353 1 635 1010 [email protected], Helsinki Filmi Financiers IFB, Finnish Film Foundation, RTÉ, Finnish TV Distribution Distributors Element Pictures Distribution (Ireland), Sandrew Metronome Distribution (Finland) Sales Agent The Yellow Affair Tel +46 8 645 1212 miira@ yellowaffair.com Status Delivered

Official Selection Torino Film Festival 2010

30 31 STELLA DAYS

In the heart of County Tipperary in the 1950s, Father Daniel Barry tackles a fundraising challenge – and satisfies a personal passion – by setting up a cinema in the village. He faces opposition from every side, from doubters, disapproving parishioners, and even his own crisis of conscience. Will he manage to resolve the conflicts between love and duty, hope and faith, the past and the future, Rome and Hollywood?

Director Thaddeus O’Sullivan Producer Jackie Larkin Script Antoine O’Flatharta Photography John Christian Roselund Editor Dermot Diskin Main Cast Martin Sheen, Stephen Rea, Trystan Gravelle, Marcella Plunkett, Amy Huberman Irish Locations Tipperary, Dublin, Wicklow Running Time 100 minutes

Production Companies Newgrange Pictures Tel +353 1 498 8028 [email protected], Paradox Produksjon Financiers IFB, BAI, RTÉ, Norwegian Film Institute, ZDF/ARTE Distributor Scanbox (Norway) Sales Agent Films Distribution Tel +33 1 53 103 399 [email protected] Status Delivery mid 2011

32 33 34 SUPERHERO

Like all teenage lads, Donald Clarke craves sex and adventure. But his time is limited – he has a fatal disease. He’s never had a girlfriend. But he’s gifted, and has found a way to bring his considerable imagination to life through graphic art and comic drawings.

After reluctant visits to several psychologists Donald meets Dr Adrian King, whom he immediately nicknames ‘Dr. Death’. After a shaky start, they come to a mutual understanding and unexpectedly end up helping each other. Then Shelly arrives on the scene, cool and different from all the other girls. Donald really likes her, and the rest of his life suddenly looks a lot brighter with her around….

Director Ian Fitzgibbon Producers Michael Garland, Astrid Kahmke, Philipp Kreuzer Script Anthony McCarten Photography Tom Faehrmann Editor Tony Cranstoun Music Marius Ruhland Main Cast Andy Serkis, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Aisling Loftus, Michael McElhatton, Sharon Horgan, Jessica Schwarz Irish Location Dublin Running Time 110 minutes

Production Companies Grand Pictures Tel +353 1 8602290 [email protected], Bavaria Pictures Financiers IFB, German Federal Film Board, FilmFernsehFonds Bavaria, Bavarian Banking Fund, MEDIA, Bavaria Pictures Sales Agent Bavaria Media GmbH Tel +49 89 6499 2238 [email protected] Status Delivery late 2011

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THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP

Arlene is a young factory-worker who lives alone in a small midlands town. She wakes one morning on the edge of a wood, lying beside the dead body of another young woman, Gina Molloy, whom she did not know. Taking refuge in denial, Arlene returns to her normal life. Days later the body is discovered by schoolgirls and talk of murder spreads through the community.

Arlene, a sleepwalker since childhood, begins to deprive herself of sleep – fearing both what might happen to her and what she might be capable of. Drawn to Gina Molloy’s bereaved family and her teenage lover, for Arlene the line starts to blur between sleeping and waking states, between tangible and imagined realities. Finally, as she trespasses further into the family’s grief, Arlene is given an opportunity to accept her own tragic past.

Director Rebecca Daly Producer Morgan Bushe Script Glenn Montgomery, Rebecca Daly Photography Suzie Lavelle Editor Halina Daugird Music Michel Schopping Main Cast Antonia Campbell Hughes, Vicky Joyce, Sam Keely Irish Location Offaly Running Time 86 minutes

Production Companies Fastnet Films Tel +353 1 478 9566 [email protected], Rinkel Film & TV Productions, KMH Film Productions Financiers IFB, Netherlands Film Fund, Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation Status Delivery early 2011

37 THE PIER

Jack McCarthy left Ireland for the US 20 years ago when his business failed and he had to get out in a hurry. Now he’s called home by his father, Larry, who says he’s dying.

Finding his father apparently fit enough to hit golf balls in a field of cattle, Jack is furious but decides to stay in Cork when he meets an American tourist, Grace – although she’s quick to tell him she’s just out of a divorce and not ready for another relationship. Jack tries to call in debts from local people who owe his father money, but their time together becomes more and more unbearable until Larry is finally honest with his son.

Director/Producer/Script Gerard Hurley Photography Jesse Cain Editor Frank Reid Music Maurice Seezer Main Cast Gerard Hurley, Lili Taylor, Karl Johnson Irish Location Cork Running Time 86 minutes

Production Company Black Equus Production Tel +353 21 731 9701 [email protected] Financier IFB Status Delivery mid 2011

38 39 THE RAFTERS

Ghosts stalk an old guesthouse in the Aran islands, as two American backpackers vie for the affections of a young woman who is, literally, haunted by her past.

Director/Script John Carney Producers Martina Niland, Macdara Kelleher Photography PJ Dillon Editor Nathan Nugent Production Design David Wilson Main Cast Marcella Plunkett, Killian Scott, Sean Donegan, Maire O’Neill, Des Nealon Irish Locations Kildare, Galway Running Time 90 minutes

Production Company Warehouse Pictures Tel +353 86 288 5874 [email protected] Financiers IFB, Optical Sandwich Status Delivery early 2011

40 41 42 Creative co-productions are feature films originating outside Ireland in which an Irish producer is involved as a creative collaborator and provider of a minority of the finance; where the film is structured as an official co-production; and where - if the content of the film has little or no visible connection to Irish culture - there is a commitment by a funding body in the principal producer’s country to provide reciprocal support for an Irish film. 43 FEATURES/ CREATIVE CO-PRODUCTIONS ESSENTIAL KILLING

Captured by the US military in Afghanistan, Mohammed is transported to a secret detention centre in Europe. When the vehicle he is riding in crashes, he finds himself suddenly free and on the run in a snow-blanketed forest, a world away from the desert home he knew. Mohammed must confront the necessity to kill – again and again – in order to survive.

Director Jerzy Skolimowski Producers Andrew Lowe, Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski Script Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski Photography Adam Sikora Editor Réka Lemhényi Production Design Joanna Kaczynska Main Cast Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner Running Time 83 minutes

Production Companies Element Pictures Tel +353 1 618 5032 [email protected], Skopia Film, Cylinder Productions, Mythberg Films Financiers IFB, Polish Film Institute, Norwegian Film Institute, MMKA, Eurimages, Task Films, Akson Studio Distributor Element Pictures Distribution (Ireland) Sales Agent HanWay Films Tel + 44 207 290 0750 [email protected] Status Delivered

Special Jury Prize CinemAvvenire Award Best Actor (Vincent Gallo) Venice International Film Festival 2010

Official Selections Toronto International Film Festival 2010 BFI London Film Festival 2010

44 ISTANBUL (ISZTAMBUL)

Abruptly left by her husband for a younger woman, Katalin finds that her family – her life’s work, her masterpiece – care only about their own problems and ignore her. Unable or unwilling to speak, she is committed to a mental hospital. But she simply walks out and hitch-hikes from Budapest to Istanbul.

Finally her husband, daughter and son show concern at her disappearance. But when her son Zoli travels to Turkey to bring her home, he finds that his mother has stepped across a threshold into another life, which she has no interest in leaving.

Director/Script Ferenc Török Producers Dominic Wright, Jacqueline Kerrin, László Kántor, Petra Goedings, Serkan Acar Photography Dániel Garas Editor Annelotte Medema Production Design Tamás Banovich Music Lance Hogan Main Cast Johanna ter Steege, Yavuz Bingol, Pádraic Delaney Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Ripple World Pictures Tel +353 1 635 1010 [email protected], Új Budapest Filmstudió, Phanta Vision, Kuzey Film Financiers IFB, Hungarian National Cultural Fund, Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation, Netherlands Film Fund, Cultural Committee Istanbul, Egg Post Production Status Delivery early 2011

45 LAPLAND ODYSSEY (Napapiirin sankarit)

In northern Finland Janne has made a career out of living on welfare. One evening Inari, his girlfriend, loses patience with his fecklessness and gives him an ultimatum: a digital set-top box, for which she has already given him the money, must be installed on her TV by dawn or she leaves.

Janne sets off into the wintry Lapland night with his two friends in search of the box, and so begins a comic trail of challenges, obstacles and temptations. It ends in a kind of success, but the journey itself – in which Janne learns courage, resourcefulness and generosity for the first time, is what really matters.

Director Dome Karukoski Producers Jacqueline Kerrin, Dominic Wright, Aleksi Bardy, Martin Persson Script Pekko Pesonen Photography Pini Hellstedt Editor Harri Ylönen Production Design Pirjo Rossi Music Lance Hogan Main Cast Jussi Vatanen, Jasper Pääkkönen, Timo Lavikainen, Pamela Tola Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Ripple World Pictures Tel +353 1 635 1010 [email protected] www. laplandodyssey.com, Helsinki Filmi, Anagram Produktion Financiers IFB, Finnish Film Foundation, Egg Post Production, YLE TV, Sveriges Television, Nordic Film & TV Fund, Swedish Film Institute, Film I Vast Distributor Sandrew Metronome (Finland) Sales Agent The Yellow Affair Tel +46 8 645 1212 miira@yellowaffair. com Status Delivered

Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2010

46 PERFECT SENSE

Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, including love - until she meets Michael, a talented chef. Suddenly everything starts to change.

While Susan and Michael are experiencing new and unforeseen depths of feeling, all around the world people are also beginning to feel strange - something is affecting the emotions.

Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure, experiencing head-spinning, stomach-tightening moments of pure connection. Is this because they are falling in love or is it because the world is falling apart?

Perfect Sense is a life affirming look at what it means to love and be loved in these turbulent times.

Director David Mackenzie Producers Gillian Berrie, Tristan Orpen Lynch, Malte Grunert, Sisse Graum Jørgensen Script Kim Fupz Aakeson Photography Giles Nuttgens Editor Jake Roberts Production Design Tom Sayer Main Cast Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Ewen Bremner, Stephen Dillane, Denis Lawson, Anamaria Marinca, Alastair Mackenzie, Connie Nielsen Running Time 88 minutes

Production Companies Subotica Tel +353 1 662 2226 [email protected], Sigma Films Financiers IFB, BBC Films, Zentropa, Creative, Danish Film Institute, Film I Väst Sales Agent Trust Nordisk Tel +45 3686 8788 [email protected] Status Delivery early 2011

Official Competition Sundance Film Festival 2011

47 THE LAST FURLONG

James Furlong is the latest in a long line of Furlongs, each blessed or cursed with a supernatural power. As a boy growing up in rural Ireland, he longs to discover his own extraordinary, hidden ability. But his experiments merely lead to the death of his family and everyone around him. When a deadly disease sweeps through the reformatory to which he’s been sent at the age of 10, James flees in horror at himself to live in isolation in the forest.

Years pass and James, now a young man, is discovered by Mae, a young woman dying of cancer. A unique and passionate romance will flower between the boy whose only talent is to cause death and the girl who is effectively dead already.

Director Agnés Merlet Producers James Flynn, Jean Luc Ormieres Script Nick Murphy, Agnes Merlet Photography Tim Fleming Editor Slyvie Landra Main Cast Rachel Hurd-Wood, Harry Treadaway Irish Locations Meath, Wicklow, Dublin Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Octagon Films Tel +353 1 276 9468 [email protected], Fidelite Films, Filmgate Films Financiers IFB, Eurimages, Film I Vast, Orange Distributor Wild Bunch Sales Agent Wild Bunch Tel +33 2530 15020 [email protected] Status Delivery early 2011

48 THE MOTH DIARIES

Adolescence, eroticism and death are entwined in this story of Rebecca who, still haunted by her father’s suicide, is in her junior year at an elite boarding school. Her friendship with sunny, innocent Lucy is invaded by the arrival of Ernessa, a dark and disturbingly beautiful girl from Europe. As Ernessa consumes more and more of Lucy’s attention, Rebecca sees Lucy’s healthy young body growing paler and weaker by the day, as if being drained of life itself.

Is Rebecca in the grip of jealousy and obsessive friendship, and ascribing impossible powers to Ernessa? Or is Ernessa genuinely evil? When Lucy’s illness becomes palpable, Rebecca finds herself left alone to battle with Ernessa for the life of her friend.

Director/Script Mary Harron Producers David Collins, Sandra Cunningham, Karine Martine Photography Declan Quinn Editor Andrew Marcus Production Design Sylvain Gringas Main Cast Sarah Bolger, Lily Cole, Scott Speedman, Sarah Gadon Running Time 100 minutes

Production Companies Samson Films Tel +353 1 667 0533 [email protected], Strada Films, Mediamax Financiers IFB, Telefilm Canada Distributors Alliance (Canada), Lionsgate (UK/ Ireland) Sales Agent Wild Bunch Tel +44 20 7792 9791 [email protected] Status Delivery mid 2011

49 THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star now living in listless retirement in Dublin, embarks on a quest to find his father’s persecutor, a Nazi war criminal hiding out in the US.

Estranged from his father for over 30 years, Cheyenne learns just before his father’s death the true extent of his humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of a former SS officer, Aloise Lange. And so begins a life-altering journey across the heartland of America to track down and confront his father’s nemesis. Cheyenne feels his spirit reawakened by the people he encounters, and his journey becomes one of self-discovery and reconciliation.

As his date with destiny approaches and he prepares to come face to face with Lange, Cheyenne must decide if it’s redemption he’s seeking – or revenge.

Director Paolo Sorrentino Producers Andrew Lowe, Nicola Giuliano, Andrea Occhipinti, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori, Stefano Massenzi Script Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello Photography Luca Bigazzi Editor Cristiano Travaglioli Production Design Stefania Cella Music David Byrne, Will Oldham Main Cast Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Eve Hewson, Simon Delaney, Harry Dean Stanton Irish Locations Dublin, Wicklow

Production Companies Element Pictures Tel +353 1 618 5032 [email protected] www.elementpictures.ie, Indigo Films, Lucky Red, ARP Financiers IFB, Eurimages, Intesa San Paolo Distributors Element Pictures Distribution (Ireland), Medusa (Italy) Sales Agent Pathé International Tel +44 2074 624 427 Status Delivery early 2011

50 51 FEATURES/ 2010 RELEASes

51 52

His & Hers

Essentially a creative documentary that combines observation and imagination to illustrate reality, the film follows the love life of one woman through the experiences of several women. It accumulates and explores moments from the ordinary to create a life extraordinary.

Director/Script/Editor Ken Wardrop Producer Andrew Freedman Photography Kate McCullough, Michael Lavelle Music Denis Clohessy Irish Locations Offaly, Kildare, Laois, Westmeath, Meath, Cavan Running Time 82 minutes

Production Company Venom Tel +353 1 497 5980 [email protected] Financier IFB Distributors Element Pictures Distribution (Ireland), Madman Entertainment (Australia & NZ) Sales Agent The Film Sales Company Tel +1 212 481 5020 [email protected]

Excellence in Cinematography in World Cinema Documentary Award Sundance Film Festival 2010

Non-Fiction Jury Award, Best Foreign Film Traverse City Film Festival 2010

Audience Award Best Documentary Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010

Best Documentary Irish Film & Television Awards 2010

Official Selections London Film Festival 2009 SXSW 2010 Hot Docs 2010

“A delightful, disarming documentary … orchestral … deceptively moving … rigorously and remarkably cinematic” Variety

“Touching and exquisitely made and never short of charm” The Irish Times

“His & Hers has the sweetly seductive nature of Once” Screen Daily

“Endearing … an affecting triumph” The Sunday Times

“A little modern Irish masterpiece” Ryan Tubridy, RTÉ

52 ONDINE

Ondine is a tale about hope, love and the value of believing in magic. It tells the story of Syracuse, a local fisherman whose everyday life is transformed by a beautiful and mysterious woman, whom he fishes from the sea and who his young daughter believes is a mermaid. But like all fairytales, enchantment and darkness go hand in hand.

Director/Script Neil Jordan Producers Neil Jordan, James Flynn, Ben Browning Photography Christopher Doyle Editor Tony Lawson Production Design Anna Rackard Music Kjartan Sveinsson Main Cast Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Stephen Rea, Alison Barry Irish Location Cork Running Time 111 minutes

Production Company Octagon Films Tel +353 1 276 9528 [email protected] Financiers IFB, Wayfare Entertainment, BCI, RTÉ Distributor Paramount Pictures (UK/Ireland) Sales Agent Paramount Pictures (UK/Ireland) Tel +1 323 956 5000 [email protected]

Golden Goblet (Cinematography) Shanghai International Film Festival 2010

Best Actor in a Lead Role (Colin Farrell) Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Dervla Kirwan) Best Production Design (Anna Rackard) Best Sound (Brendan Deasy, Tom Johnson, Sarah Gaines) Irish Film & Television Awards 2010

Official Selections Toronto International Film Festival 2009 Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2010 Helsinki Film Festival 2010 Hamburg Film Festival 2010 Seattle International Film Festival 2010 Newport Beach International Film Festival 2010

“A gorgeous contemporary fairytale. When director Jordan resolves the mystery, he does so beautifully, satisfying both realists and those who long for a storybook ending.” Washington Post

“There is so much beauty and enough saving grace on these craggy shores to let the mists and the legends roll in and envelop you for a while.” LA Times

53 PERRIER’S BOUNTY

Set in contemporary Dublin, Perrier’s Bounty is a fast paced comedy-thriller featuring three unlikely fugitives on the run from gangster supremo, Perrier, who is desperate to retain his pride and cash after the accidental murder of one of his loyal gang. With only 24 hours to escape certain death, the trio must beat the clock, stay awake, and above all, pay Perrier’s bounty.

Director Ian FitzGibbon Producers Alan Moloney, Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen Script Mark O’Rowe Photography Seamus Deasy Editor Tony Cranstoun Production Design Amanda McArthur Music David Holmes Main Cast Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent, Jodie Whittaker, Brendan Gleeson Irish Locations Dublin, Louth Running Time 90 minutes

Production Company Parallel Film Productions Tel +353 1 236 0757 [email protected] Financiers IFB, Limelight Films, Premiere Pictures Distributor Optimum Releasing (UK/ Ireland) Sales Agent HanWay Films Tel +44 207 290 0750 [email protected]

Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2009

“The fastest, funniest, blackest crime thriller you could hope to see. 10/10.” Daily Star

54 SAVAGE

Fear. Control. Anger. Revenge.

A meditation on violence and masculinity, this is the story of Paul Gaynor, a young press photographer who lives, lonely and alienated, in a hostile city and must struggle to rebuild his life following a brutal, random attack.

Director/Script Brendan Muldowney Producer Conor Barry Photography Tom Comerford, Michael O’Donovan Editor Mairead McIvor Production Design Padraig O’Neill Music Stephen McKeon Main Cast Darren Healy, Nora-Jane Noone Irish Location Dublin Running Time 84 minutes

Production Company SP Films Tel +353 1 460 4760 [email protected] Financiers IFB, Filmbase Distributors Eclipse Pictures Distribution (Ireland), High Fliers (UK) Sales Agent Cinemavault Tel +1 416 363 6060 admin@ cinemavault.com

Best Editing (Mairead McIvor) Irish Film and Television Awards 2010

Official Selections Glasgow Film Festival 2010 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2010 Weekend of Fear, Germany 2010 Moscow International Film Festival 2010 Espoo Cine, Finland 2010 Lund Film Festival, Sweden 2010 Leeds Film Festival 2010 Capital Irish Film Festival, Washington DC 2010

“.... a bona fide must-see” The Sunday Independent

“Here’s an Irish film with that rare thing: a touch of class” The Sunday Tribune

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ALL GOOD CHILDREN

After the death of their mother, Irish youngsters Dara and Eoin are moved to France to stay with their aunt. There, the boys befriend a local English family and the impressionable Dara falls under the spell of their young daughter Bella. But when she begins to pull away, Dara’s feelings for her start to get out of hand.

Director Alicia Duffy Producers Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Jonathan Cavendish, Tom Dercourt, Patrick Quinet Script Alicia Duffy (based on a novel by Sam Taylor) Photography Nanu Segal Editor Nicolas Chaudeurge Production Design Igor Gabriel Music Steve Stapleton, Daniel Figgis Main Cast Jack Gleeson, Imogen Jones, David Brazil, David Wilmot, Kate Duchene Running Time 81 minutes

Production Companies Element Pictures Tel +353 1 618 5032 [email protected], Caveman Films, Cinema Defacto, Artemis Productions Financiers IFB, CRRAV Nord-pas de Calais, Communauté Français de Belgique, Région Wallonie, Eurimages, Belgian Tax Shelter, Sofica, Préachat TV Cryptée Distributor Element Pictures Distribution (Ireland) Sales Agent Coach 14 Tel + 33 47 00 10 08 [email protected]

Official Selections Cannes Film Festival 2010 (Quinzaine de Realisateurs) Dinard Film Festival 2010

“Jack Gleeson is perfectly cast as the gently obsessive Dara” Screen Daily

“Duffy’s intelligence makes this film a success” The Guardian

“Thesping is strong, particularly by the youngsters, but Gleeson, with his massive blue eyes and anxious, ever-hopeful expression, is the pic’s big discovery” Variety

56 CHERRYBOMB

Teenagers Luke, Malachy, and Michelle embark on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars. But what starts as a game turns deadly serious when they discover the wild ride they’ve set in motion won’t let them get off.

Directors Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn Producers Michael Casey, Mark Huffam, Brian Kirk Script Daragh Carville Photography Damian Elliott Editor Nick Emerson Production Design David Craig Music David Holmes Main Cast Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, Kimberley Nixon Irish Location Down Running Time 86 minutes

Production Companies Octagon Films Tel +353 1 276 9468 [email protected], Green Park Films, Generator Entertainment Financiers IFB, Northern Ireland Screen, BBC NI, BAI Distributors Blue Dolphin, Universal Sales Agent The Little Film Company Tel +1 818 762 6999 [email protected]

Official Selection Berlin Film Festival 2009 – Generation 14 Plus

“a genuinely fresh, cinematic piece … more emotional grit than we might expect from a teen flick, and disturbing twists and turns that create a genuine edge, this is a promising debut” Empire

“Sheehan gives an utterly mesmerising performance as the troubled Luke” Sight and Sound

57 58

COLONY

The unexplainable phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder has left landscapes of empty beehives all across America, threatening not only the beekeeping industry but our food supply. As scientists and beekeepers search for the cause, Colony captures the struggle within the beekeeping community to save the honeybee and themselves.

Directors Ross McDonnell, Carter Gunn Producers Morgan Bushe, Macdara Kelleher Photography Ross McDonnell Editor Carter Gunn Running Time 88 minutes

Production Company Fastnet Films Tel +353 1 478 9566 [email protected] Financier IFB Distributors Area 23a (USA), Delicatessen (Holland) Sales Agent E1 Entertainment [email protected]

First Appearance Award IDFA 2009

Best Feature Anaheim Film Festival 2010

Official Selections Toronto International Film Festival 2009 True / False Film Festival, USA 2010 River Run IFF, USA 2010 Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival 2010 Planete Doc Review Film Festival, Poland 2010 Sydney Film Festival 2010 Sarajevo Film Festival 2010 CPH: Dox 2010

“One of the most aesthetically beautiful documentary of the season, as well as one of the most urgent and intelligent” Variety

“A brilliant, beautiful film” The Toronto Globe and Mail

“Proof that documentaries can be as beautiful as dramas” The Irish Times

58 59

EAMON

A family holiday brings to a head the destructive love triangle between Eamon, a little boy with behavioural problems, his selfish mother Grace and his sexually frustrated father Daniel.

Director/Script Margaret Corkery Producer Seamus Byrne Photography David Grennan Editor Mairead McIvor Production Design Paki Smith Main Cast Darren Healy, Amy Kirwan, Robert Donnelly Irish Location Wicklow Running Time 85 minutes

Production Company Zanita Films Tel +353 1 276 9540 [email protected] Financiers IFB, BAI, Filmbase, TV3 Sales Agent Wide Management Tel +33 1 53 95 04 64 [email protected]

Best Film in Forum of Independents Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2009

Best Director Cinequest USA 2010

MK2 Jameson Award Paris Close Up Film Festival 2009

Jury Prize Callabria Film Festival, Italy 2009

Official Selections Toronto International Film Festival 2009 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2009 Sao Paolo International Film Festival 2010 Norwegian International Film Festival 2010 29th Istanbul International Film Festival 2010 7th IndieLisboa Film Festival 2010 Haifa International Film Festival, Israel 2010

“A pitch-perfect combination of comedy and suspense, full of surprising twists and felicitous details that never strain” Variety

59 FOXES

Dubliner Steve and his Slovak girlfriend Tina are building their life in Ireland. Then Tina’s sister Alzbeta arrives, ostensibly to follow Tina’s example and find a job and an Irish partner. But Alzbeta is carrying a secret that will shatter the sisters’ dreams of a cosy future

Director/Script Mira Fornayova Producers David Collins, Brian Willis, Viktor Schwarcz, Juraj Buzalka Photography Tomas Pavlacky Editor Hedvika Hansalova Production Design Jan Vicek, Cos Egan Main Cast Aaron Monaghan, Rita Banci, Reka Dersziova, Jitka Joskova Irish Locations Wicklow, Dublin Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Samson Films Tel +353 1 667 0533 [email protected], Cineart TV Prague, Miras SRO Financiers IFB, Czech Film Fund, Slovak Film Fund, Eurimages, Ceska Televize Distributor Eclipse Pictures (Ireland)

DIALOG Prize Cottbus International Film Festival 2009

Best Actress (Reka Dersziova) Rouen International Film Festival 2009

Official Selections Venice Film Festival 2009 Pusan International Film Festival 2009 Rotterdam International Film Festival 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2010

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PYJAMA GIRLS Pyjama Girls presents the chaotic friendship of teenagers Lauren and Tara as they navigate the trials of life, dressed all the while in their uniform of rebellion: pyjamas. Lauren’s future hangs in the balance as she takes part in street violence with rival teen gangs and faces expulsion from school. Balancing tenderness with hilarity, the film reveals the challenges that life throws her - from her addict mother to the disruptive world of the flats - and uncovers the crucial importance of her friendship with Tara.

Director Maya Derrington Producer Nicky Gogan Photography Suzie Lavelle Editor Paul Rowley Music Dennis McNulty Running Time 72 minutes

Production Company Still Films Tel +353 1445 6483 [email protected] Financier IFB

Audience Award Capital Irish Film Festival, Washington DC 2010

“[A] beautifully underplayed yet utterly haunting film” The Irish Examiner

“Smart and an absolute hoot” The Irish Times

“[An] acclaimed and cleverly orchestrated documentary” Hot Press

61 SWANSONG – THE STORY OF OCCI BYRNE

Austin ‘Occi’ Byrne’s life begins when his mother brings him back to her village in Sligo after failing to have an abortion in England. Following a troubled childhood Occi is committed to a mental asylum. When it closes down, he finds work on a trawler where he causes the death of a fellow sailor. The death goes undiscovered but worse awaits Occi when he returns home and learns the truth about his parentage.

Director/Script Conor McDermottroe Producers Hermann Florin, Edwina Forkin, Tom Maguire Photography Alexander Du Prel Editor Mairead McIvor Production Design Padraig O’Neill Music Carl Carlton Main Cast Martin McCann, Jodie Whittaker, Marcella Plunkett, Gerard McSorley, Brid Brennan, Owen Roe Irish Location Sligo Running Time 100 minutes

Production Companies Zanzibar Films Tel +353 1 671 948 [email protected], Florin Film Financiers IFB, RTÉ, Eurimage, Kinowelt, ZDF/ Arte Distributor Cinema North West Sales Agent The Little Film Company Tel +1 818 762 6999 info@ thelittlefilmcompany.com

Best Feature (Runner Up) Galway Film Fleadh 2009

Official Selections Munich Film Festival 2010 Montreal Film Festival 2010

“McDermottroe shows himself to be a filmmaker of real promise” Harry Guerin, RTÉ Entertainment

“A touching and emotional drama ... a gritty and moving look at the Ireland of the 1970s” Irish Examiner

62 63

THE DAISy chAIN

Following the sudden death of their infant daughter, Martha and Tomas retreat to the west of Ireland and foster an eight year old girl Daisy, who has lost her entire family in tragic accidents. The locals warn that Daisy is an evil fairy changeling but for Martha, Daisy becomes the focus of an obsessive love. As a string of ghastly events strike the community Martha will eventually sacrifice everything to her belief that Daisy is the child she was meant to have.

Director Aisling Walsh Producers Tristan Orpen Lynch, Dominic Wright Script Lauren Mackenzie Editors Chris Gill, Bryan Oates Photography Simon Kossoff Production Design Padraig O’Neill Music David Julyan Main Cast Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh, Eva Birthistle, David Bradley Irish Location Mayo Running Time 90 minutes

Production Company Subotica Entertainment Tel +353 1 662 2226 [email protected] Financiers IFB, BAI, Xtravision, RTÉ, BBC, Screen Scene, Finance Wales, Limelight, Content Film Sales Agent Content Film Tel +44 207 851 6500 rebecca.berry@ contentfilm.com

Best Achievement in Production Nominee Best Actress Nominee (Samantha Morton) British Independent Film Awards 2008

“Aisling Walsh’s first feature since the multi- award winning Song for a Raggy Boy blends the supernatural with raw real-world emotions, wonderfully expressed by Samantha Morton as Martha” Raindance Film Festival

“Rich in atmosphere and good ideas” The Irish Times

63 64

THE FADING LIGHT

As their mother slips into the last stages of a fatal illness, her three children gather under the same roof in Dublin for the first time in a long while. Their days and hours together, and their mother’s passing away, will first draw them closer to each other than ever before, then force them to face truths about their father’s death long ago and the secrets that were buried with him – until finally hurling them apart again, each into their individual loneliness.

Director/Script/Editor Ivan Kavanagh Producer AnneMarie Naughton Photography Colin Downey Production Design Laura Glynn Main Cast Valene Kane, Bibbi Larsson, Patrick O’Donnell, Emma Eliza Regan Irish Location Dublin Running Time 71 minutes

Production Company Park Films Tel +353 1 285 3755, [email protected] www.parkfilms.ie www. thefadinglightthemovie.com Financier IFB

Best Irish Film Best Male Actor (Patrick O’Donnell) Dublin Film Critics Circle Award, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010

Official Selection Pusan International Film Festival 2010

“... a work of brain-rattling assurance from a singularly gifted director ... with this utterly draining, artistically brave film, Kavanagh emerges as film-maker of undeniable substance” The Irish Times

64 65

THE PIPE

The Pipe tells the story of a community in a remote Irish coastal town tragically divided with the discovery of gas offshore. The rights of farmers over their fields, and of fishermen to their fishing grounds has come in direct conflict with one of the world’s most powerful oil companies which has resulted in protests, clashes with police and arrests. With the imminent arrival of the world’s largest pipelaying vessel, a massive security operation is put into action by the State to ensure that the pipe is laid without interference. When all hope seems lost, events take a dramatic turn….

Director/Photography Risteard Ó Domhnaill Producer Rachel Lysaght Editors Stephen O’Connell, Nigel O’Regan Running Time 83 minutes

Production Company Scannain Inbhear Tel +353 87 285 9749 [email protected] Financiers IFB, TG4 Sales Agents Cinetic Media Tel +1 212 204 7979; Autlook Film Sales Tel +43 720 34 69 34

Honourable Mention - Green Screen Competition IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2010

Best Documentary Film Galway Film Fleadh 2010

Best Feature Documentary Foyle Film Festival 2010

Official Selections Toronto International Film Festival 2010 BFI London International Film Festival 2010

“Stirring... astute... first-rate” Variety

“Provocative... challenging... engrossing” Screen Daily

“Compelling... startlingly honest” Time Out

65 TRAFFICKED

Trafficked into the land of a thousand welcomes, young African girl Taiwo, believes she is about to start a new life free from the oppression at home. But she soon finds that she is trapped in the dark seedy underworld of vice and drugs. She meets small time hood Keely, who unwittingly seals both their fates when he steals her from the gangsters she was supposed to work for.

Director/Script Ciaran O’Connor Producers Nuala Cunningham, Linda Cardiff, Ciaran O’Connor, Simon Hudson Photography Ruari O’Brien Editor Mearaid McGivor Music Niall O’Sullivan, Kila, Tim Smyth, Paul Tiernan Main Cast Karl Shiels, Ruth Negga, Martin Dunne, Neili Conroy Irish Location Dublin Running Time 85 minutes

Production Company New Decade Tel + 353 1 679 3282 [email protected] Financiers IFB, Stoney Road Films Distributor Stoney Road Films

Best First Feature Galway Film Fleadh “Strong cast, visual imagination and narrative flair on a very small budget” The Irish Times

“Negga steals the show” Sunday Business Post

“Trafficked is the closest Irish cinema has come in many years to a bona fide film noir... its subject matter is timely, and indeed timeless... diehard noir fans will revel in an ending that pulls no punches” Irish Mail on Sunday

“Superb performances” Pat Coyle, RTÉ’s The View

“Captures the sense of desperation and realities of life at the bottom” Harry Guerin, RTÉ Entertainment

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ZONAD ZONAD

Zonad is from space… or so the Cassidy family Zonad is from space… or so the Cassidy family assume when they discover an apparent alien in a assume when they discover an apparent alien in a shiny red space suit passed out on the floor beside shiny red space suit passed out on the floor beside the drinks cabinet. But Zonad is not a space cadet the drinks cabinet. But Zonad is not a space cadet in the literal sense. Real name Liam Murphy, in the literal sense. Real name Liam Murphy, this alcoholic chancer has just escaped from a this alcoholic chancer has just escaped from a rehabilitation clinic. At first, Zonad tries to evade rehabilitation clinic. At first, Zonad tries to evade the warm welcome of the villagers, the procession the warm welcome of the villagers, the procession of wanton women and free beer gets the better of of wanton women and free beer gets the better of him. As his philandering rouses suspicion, will his him. As his philandering rouses suspicion, will his ruse be uncovered? ruse be uncovered?

Directors/Script John Carney, Kieran Carney Directors/Script John Carney, Kieran Carney Producers Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, John Producers Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, John McDonnell Photography Peter Robertson McDonnell Photography Peter Robertson Editors Nathan Nugent, Paul Mullen Production Editors Nathan Nugent, Paul Mullen Production Design Susie Cullen Music Brian Byrne Main Cast Design Susie Cullen Music Brian Byrne Main Cast Simon Delaney, David Pearse, Janice Byrne, Rory Simon Delaney, David Pearse, Janice Byrne, Rory Keenan Irish Locations Dublin, Wicklow Keenan Irish Locations Dublin, Wicklow Running Time 75 minutes Running Time 75 minutes Production Company Element Pictures Tel +353 1 Production Company Element Pictures Tel +353 618 5032 [email protected] Financiers IFB, 1 618 5032 [email protected] Financiers RTÉ Distributor Element Pictures Distribution IFB, RTÉ, Screen Scene Sales Agents The Works (UK/Ireland) Sales Agents The Works International International Tel +44 207 612 0090, Cinetic Media Tel +44 207 612 0090, Cinetic Media Tel +1 212 204 Tel +1 212 204 7979 Distributor Element Pictures 7979 Distribution (UK/Ireland)

Best Original Score Best Original Score Irish Film and Television Awards 2010 Irish Film and Television Awards 2010

Official Selections Official Selections Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Shanghai International Film Festival 2010 Shanghai International Film Festival 2010 Beijing International Movie Festival 2010 Beijing International Movie Festival 2010 Austin Film Festival 2010 Austin Film Festival 2010 Leeds International Film Festival 2010 Leeds International Film Festival 2010 “A fully baked Gaelic nutroll of a comedy” , “A fully baked Gaelic nutroll of a comedy” , “gleefully unhinged ... cult hit” “gleefully unhinged”... “cult hit” Variety Variety “Uproariously funny comedy ... consistently “Uproariously funny comedy”... “consistently deranged ... we laughed liked the proverbial deranged”... “we laughed liked the proverbial drain” drain” The Irish Times The Irish Times

“Ridiculously funny ... hilarious and mad as a “Ridiculously funny”... “hilarious and mad as a balloon ... wildly original, brilliantly funny” balloon”... “wildly original, brilliantly funny” Hot Press Hot Press “Tongue in cheek Tour de Force” “Tongue in cheek Tour de Force” Sunday Independent Sunday Independent

67 68 69 DOCUMENTARY/ KNUCKLE

An epic 12-year journey into in the world of an Irish Traveller community. The film takes us intimately inside their brutal, secretive and exhilarating bare-knuckle fighting lives. This story chronicles a history of violent feuding between rival clans.

Director/Photography Ian Palmer Producer Teddy Leifer Editor Ollie Huddleston Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Rise Films Tel + 44 203 214 6072 [email protected], Seafield Films Financiers IFB, BBC Storyville Status Delivered

Official Competition World Documentary Sundance Film Festival 2011

70 THE SUMMIT

Written by Academy Award® winning writer Mark Monroe and executively produced by Academy Award® winners John Battsek (One Day in September) and Simon Chinn (Man on Wire), The Summit tells the story of the deadliest day in modern mountain climbing history.

In August of 2008, 22 climbers from several international expeditions converged on High Camp of K2, the last stop before the summit of the most dangerous mountain on Earth, Mount Everest. 48 hours later, 11 had been killed or simply vanished into thin air. Like a horror movie come-to-life, it was as if the mountain began stealing lives, one climber at a time...

Director/Producer Nick Ryan Script Mark Monroe Photography Robbie Ryan Running Time 100 minutes

Production Company Image Now Films Tel +353 1 411 3310 [email protected] Financiers IFB, BAI, RTÉ, BBC Status Delivery late 2011

71 AFTERMATH APPLES OF GOLAN

The indigenous people of an Indian Ocean archipelago Nestled high on a mountainside in the Middle East, are thrust into our modern world overnight and a Syrian Druze village has survived under Israeli embark on a search for a new identity. This is the occupation, while 136 others like it were wiped out. story of the people of the Nicobar Islands, whose communities were torn apart by the tsunami in 2004: Using a multi-character narrative, the film weaves its their attempts to rebuild their lives, cope with the way through streets and orchards revealing how this deluge of aid, and hold on to their traditions. secretive community have clung onto their land using a simple fruit-the apple. Director/Script Raphael Barth Producers Michael Seeber, John Wallace Photography Philipp Directors/Script/Editors Keith Walsh, Jill Pfeifer, Raphael Barth, Simron J. Singh, Dominik Beardsworth Producers John Wallace, Michael Seeber Spritzendorfer, Denis Giles Editor Alexandra Löwy Photography Keith Walsh Running Time 80 minutes Running Time 90 minutes Production Companies Twopair Films Tel +353 1 427 Production Companies Two Pair Films Tel +353 1 427 0909 [email protected], Golden Girls 0909 [email protected], Golden Girls Filmproduktion Financiers IFB, Film Fonds Vienna Filmproduktion, Filmtank Financiers IFB, Vienna Status Delivery early 2011 Film Fund, TV Funds Austria, ORF, Filmfund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Status Delivery mid 2011

ART WILL SAVE THE WORLD BARBARIC GENIUS

Singer. Songwriter. Novelist. Artist This is the story of one remarkable man’s journey from street mugger and wino to chess champion and Luke Haines is regularly described as one of the award-winning author, and how a single act of violence greatest English contemporary songwriters, who brought him crashing down again. launched Britpop and jumped ship as soon as it set sail. His wry commentaries respect few boundaries In the early ‘90s, writer John Healy was everywhere and his musical arrangements are uniquely suited to – on TV, in the papers, being interviewed, reviewed, both the worlds of music and film. profiled. Then John Healy disappeared.

Art Will Save The World explores the work, legacy, Stories emerged to fill the vacuum, dark stories that struggles, battles and future of this perennial outsider kept most from trying to find him. Now, after 16 years, of Britpop and the British music scene. he’s about to make a comeback, launched once more on the world stage, with the likes of Irvine Welsh Director/Script Niall McCann Producer Clare Ridge and Daniel Day-Lewis as his cheerleaders. But what Photography Matt Kirrane Editor Declan McGrath happened to derail the most promising literary career Running Time 70 minutes of the early ‘90s? And what happens to a man who has nothing, then everything, and then nothing again? Production Company Happy Endings Productions Tel + 353 1 669 7101 [email protected] Financier Director Paul Duane Producers Mary Carson, Paul IFB Status Delivered Duane Photography Anthony Dalton, Joe Edwards, Ben Richards, Paul Duane Editor Colm O’Brien Running Time 72 minutes

Production Company Screenworks Tel +353 1 764 5748 [email protected] Financiers IFB, RTÉ Status Delivered

72 73 FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY LIVING COLOUR

In 1988, the Gate Theatre in Dublin staged a seminal An intimate portrayal of a collective of extraordinary production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”. and idiosyncratic artists, shedding new light on old Since then, the same four actors have performed questions about the nature of art and artistic talent. the play throughout the world, winning great critical acclaim and many international awards. Director/Script Éamon Little Producers Martha O’Neill, Adrian McCarthy Photography Éamon To mark the 20th anniversary, the Gate Theatre Little, Feargal Ward, Emmet Harte, Neal Boyle took the production with the same four actors on Editor Tadhg O’Sullivan Running Time 80 minutes an exhaustive tour of Ireland playing at 40 different venues from theatres to parish halls around Production Company Wildfire Films Tel +1 672 5553 the country in just 8 weeks. The film follows the [email protected] Financiers IFB, RTÉ, BAI tumultuous course of the production and as the tour Status Delivery early 2011 unfolds, it begins to assume an epic dimension, and we learn about the business of acting and Beckett’s extraordinary play.

Director/Producer David Blake Knox Photography Joe Edwards, Philip Graham Editor Vinny Beirne Running Time 90 minutes

Production Companies Parallel Films Tel +353 1 236 0757 [email protected], Blueprint Pictures info@ blueprintpictures.ie Financier IFB Status Delivery early 2011

MARTIN HAYES IN FIVE WAYS PATRICK IRELAND

A vibrant, intimate and vivid portrait of one of On the 20th May 2008, the 80 year old artist Brian Ireland’s most significant musical talents, fiddle O’Doherty came back to Ireland from New York to kill maestro Martin Hayes. and bury his alter ego Patrick Ireland on the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in a resonant and As Hayes plays on the world stage, the film emotional ceremony attended by over 500 people. examines his shaping influences and looks at how his collaborations involve traditional and contemporary Patrick Ireland had been created over 35 years idioms. It provides an original insight into the life, previous as a symbolic gesture of protest at the British the times and especially the musical playing of a military presence in Northern Ireland. At that time the unique Irish cultural ambassador. artist vowed he would stay in the character of Patrick Ireland for as long as it took for the British Army to Director Art O’Briain Producers Art O’Brian, leave Ireland and for civil rights to be ensured for all. Ellen Cranitch, Aileen McDonagh Photography Fionn He felt that as an expatriate, the only thing he could McGiolla Chuda, Art O’Briain Editor Manuela Corbari offer was a name and that this name would represent Running Time 70 minutes his bond with and empathy towards the country in which he no longer lived. Production Company Moving Still Productions Tel +353 87 238 6509 [email protected] Financier IFB This film uncovers the events surrounding the Status Delivery late 2011 extraordinary burial of Patrick Ireland.

Director/Editor Sé Merry Doyle Producers Vanessa Gildea, Martina Durac Photography Paddy Jordan Running Time 50 minutes

Production Company Loopline Tel +353 1 661 9696 [email protected] www.loopline.com Financier IFB Status Delivered

74 75 MEN OF ARLINGTON OFF THE BEATEN TRACK

Men of Arlington documents the lives of residents of Off The Beaten Track chronicles a world, untouched London’s Arlington House, which housed thousands for centuries, struggling with profound change. of Irishmen who fled Ireland in the 1950’s in search Since joining the EU, Romanians have been free to of work. work as agricultural labourers and can earn more in one month than a year in their traditional These men dug the roads and rebuilt Britain after occupation as shepherds. the war. For most, Arlington offered a bed for a few nights as they established themselves in a new The film follows Albin, a teenage shepherd from country. But for others it became a home for life. a remote village in Northern Transylvania, over the course of a year as he makes his way through the This is the story of those men who lost themselves on ever-changing environment where traditions and the their journey, but found shelter and community in the slow pace of the shepherds’ routine are gradually halls of the ‘big house’. being replaced by modern values. The film reflects on a year of change in the village where modernity causes Director Enda Hughes Producer Brendan J Byrne clashes between generations and asks, what are Photography Petra Graf, David Barker, Peter Harvey quality of life, progress and prosperity? Editor Russell Crockett Running Time 70 minutes Director/Script Dieter Auner Producers Suin Production Company Hotshot Films Tel +44 289 0656 Ni Raghallaigh, Dieter Auner, Cristian Mungiu 023 [email protected] Financiers IFB, BBC Photography Nora Agapi Editors Roxana Malaroiu, Northern Ireland, BAI Status Delivered Alexandru Radu, Catalin Cristutiu Running Time 90 minutes

Production Company Ikandi Productions Tel + 353 87 248 2681 [email protected] www.ikandi.ie Financiers IFB, Mobra Films, TG4 Distributor EastWest Film Distribution (Austria, Europe) Status Delivered

THE LIBERTIES Official Selections International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011 The film equivalent of a portrait gallery, The Liberties Transylvania International Film Festival 2010 is a series of intimate vignettes, each focusing on a different character within Dublin’s Liberties community. From the man who raised seven daughters in a two bedroom flat, to the Oscar-winning actress who would live nowhere else in the world, in honouring each individual story The Liberties becomes a celebration of this unique community.

Directors/Producers/Photography Shane Hogan, Tom Burke Editor Tom Burke Running Time 70 minutes

Production Company Areaman Productions Tel +353 1 478 9000 [email protected] Financiers Arts Council, IFB Status Delivered

“Impressively captures the spirit of a community” The Sunday Times

“Utterly compelling and entirely fresh” The Irish Times

“A well crafted purposeful film about an area of Dublin whose people have always had a sense of themselves as distinct” The Sunday Business Post

76 77 STAND UP: MY BEST FRIEND WHAT WE LEAVE IN OUR WAKE

Stand Up: My Best Friend is a documentary assembled A filmic essay which unfolds as a series of from a series of interviews given by young Irish conversations on Ireland, exploring themes such as LGBT individuals and their straight best friend. emigration, mythology, consumerism, socialism, the sense of a civic society, the place of the church in Irish The documentary is a tender mood piece that life, the central role of land in Irish history. Combining illustrates a radically different Ireland than that images of contemporary Ireland with an evocative normally perceived or propagated overseas. It is a blend of archive, the film questions what persists celebration of how far Ireland has come in terms rather than the temporary fluctuations and trends, of sexuality and social inclusion and is a heart and talks to some of those uniquely placed to warming celebration of a generation to come for comment on how this country has evolved. whom friendship transcends ideas of conformity and difference. Through it’s intimacy, honesty and genuine Director/Producer Pat Collins Photography Colm feeling, the piece delivers a message of hope in the Hogan, Fergal Ward Editor Tadhg O’Sullivan Running future generation and in the transformative power Time 70 minutes of friendship. Production Company Harvest Films Tel + 353 28 Director/Editor Maurice Linnane Producers Mark 20799 [email protected] Financier IFB Status O’ Halloran, Cathleen Dore, Maurice Linnane, Philip Delivered McMahon, Colin Thornton Photography Ciaran Tanham Running Time 40 minutes

Production Company Long Grass Productions Tel +353 87 286 3976 [email protected] Financier IFB Status Delivered

WONDERLAND

A film about the perils, pitfalls and pleasures of growing up in Romania’s communist propaganda industry. This is a history of a European country, told through the eyes of one person and her family, and through the medium of the world of films and propaganda in which she lived and worked. It is the story of the reality behind the set and what happened when the sets were demolished. This is an attempt by one person to understand how it was all possible, at this time when historians are only starting to lay the foundations of the new history of Eastern Europe.

Director/Script Irina Maldea Producer Brendan Culleton Photography Dan Curean Editor Nita Chivulescu Running Time 80 minutes

Production Company Akajava Films Tel +353 1 662 0951 [email protected] Financiers IFB, BAI, Eurimages, Arts Council, YLE, TG4 Status Delivery early 2011

78 79 80 81 ANIMATION/ I’M A MONSTER JO AND JACK

In I’m a Monster, famous and obscure monsters talk to Jo’s best friend is Jack, a big fluffy tomcat. They are camera and introduce us to their worlds. They tell us together all the time, playing, giggling and hatching all sorts of fun facts and theories about themselves – secret plans. Jo can understand everything Jack where they come from, how they became famous, and says and Jack can understand everything Jo says but how they feel about their reputations. grown-ups can’t understand what they are saying to one another. All subjects are taken from mythology, nature, folklore or literature, so each episode carries light educational Jo and Jack are two friends who’d like to conquer the content. But scary or hairy, fact or legend, kids love world – if only they weren’t such scaredy cats…. monsters, and our monsters love to show off…. Director Stuart Shankly Producers Maeve McAdam, Director Alistair McIlwain Producer Deirdre Barry Villi Ragnarsson Script Corrina Askin Running Time Script Richard Morss Main Cast Miriam Kelly Running 39 x 7 minutes Time 52 x 2 minutes Production Company Dancing Girl Productions Tel Production Company Monster Distributes +353 86 1738 048 [email protected] Tel +353 1 611 4934 [email protected] Financiers IFB, BAI, Northern Ireland Screen, Irish Financiers IFB, MEDIA, RTÉ Distributor Monster Language Broadcast Fund, RTÉ Distributor CCI Distributes Status Delivery late 2011 Releasing Status Delivery late 2011

LEGENDS OF VALHALLA – THOR

Ireland’s first stereoscopic 3D picture, Legends of Valhalla – Thor tells the story of a young blacksmith, Thor who lives happily with his mother in a peaceful little village. The legend says he is the son of Odinn, the King of the Gods. Therefore the fellow villagers believe that the terrifying Giants will never attack them. But they are terribly mistaken. A Giant army crushes the village and takes the villagers to Hel, the Queen of the Underworld. Thor is knocked out and left behind. He sets out to save his friends with the hammer, Crusher - who claims to be a magical weapon!

Directors Óskar Jonasson, Toby Genkel, Gunnar Karlsson Producers Moe Honan, Ralph Christians, Hilmar Sigurdsson, Arnar Thorisson, Emely Christians, Maite Wokoeck Script Friðrik Erlingsson, Mark Hodkinson Editor Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir Production Design Gunnar Karlsson Main Cast Justin Gregg, Alan Stanford, Mary Murray, Nicola Coughlan, Emmett Scanlan Running Time 80 minutes

Production Companies Magma Films Tel +353 91 569 142 [email protected], CAOZ, Ulysses Films. Financiers IFB, Eurimages, Icelandic Film Centre, ICF, Nordisk Film & TV Fund, Sena, MEDIA, Hamburg Film Fund, Nordmedia Sales Agent Telepool GmbH Tel +49 89 55 87 61 88 [email protected] Status Delivery late 2011

82 83 PUNKY SANTA’S APPRENTICE

Punky is a happy little girl with bright red hair, a big Santa doesn’t want to retire, but rules are rules and he smile and Down syndrome. must train someone to replace him. The lucky winner, to be picked out of millions of children, must be named She loves music, dancing and hugs! She enjoys Nicholas, be an orphan and have a pure heart. playing with her big brother Con and her scruffy dog Rufus, helping round the house with Mum and On the other side of the planet, there is a little boy trying to make Cranky, her grandmother, just a little who is a perfect match, but his lack of self-confidence less cranky. and fear of heights make him a poor contestant. Will Santa agree to step down and help his apprentice Directors Ciara McClean, Simon Crane Producer take his place? Gerard O’Rourke Created by Lindsay J Sedgwick Script Andrew Brenner Character Design Ciara Director Luc Vinciguerra Producers Ross Murray, McClean Main Cast Aimee Richardson Running Paul Young, Avrill Stark, Jeremie Fajner, Clement Time 20 x 7 minutes Calvet Script Alexandre Reverend Editor Céline Kélépikis Production Design Tanguy Olivier Main Cast Production Company Monster Animation Tel Shane Jacobson, Magda Szubanski, Delta Goodrem, +353 1 603 4980; +353 86 247 9877 Gerard@ Jack Versance Running Time 80 minutes monsteranimation.ie Financiers IFB, BAI, RTÉ Distributor Monster Animation Status Delivery Production Companies Cartoon Saloon Tel + 353 56 early 2011 776 4481 [email protected], Gaumont-Alphanim, Avrill Stark Entertainment Financiers IFB, Flying Bark Productions, Orange Cinéma Séries, Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’Image Animée, Département de la Charente & de la Région Poitou- Charentes, MEDIA Distributors Gaumont (France), The Weinstein Company (North America/UK), Odeon (Greece), Victory Prod (Benelux), Cinemax (CIS), Four Star (Middle East), Yenibir (Turkey), Vision (Poland), TILLY & FRIENDS Lusomundo (Portugal), Monopole Pathe (Switzerland), Weg (India), PT Amero (Indonesia), HBO (Latin Tilly and her friends all live together in the little yellow America) Sales Agent Gaumont Tel +33 1 46 43 20 00 house. Come inside and meet Tilly and her friends www.gaumont.fr Status Delivered Pru, Hector, Doodle, Tiptoe and Tumpty. Together, they immerse themselves in all sorts of imaginative play, discovering the joys and challenges of friendship. With nurturing love and gentle humour, Tilly helps everyone to get along. The adventures of Tilly and her friends sparkle with vibrant colour, wit and a little bit of magic.

Director Alan Shannon Producer John Rice Script Polly Dunbar Running Time 52 x 11 minutes

Production Company JAM Media Tel +353 1 405 3484 [email protected] Financiers IFB, Cbeebies, Walker Books Status Delivery late 2011

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CORP & ANAM

Set in contemporary Ireland, Corp & Anam tells the story of TV crime correspondent. Cathal Mac Iarnáin, who prides himself on pursuing the story behind the story. In four hard-hitting episodes that explore the many ills of contemporary Irish society, Mac Iarnáin pursues stories of health service neglect, internet paedophilia, boy-racer recklessness and police corruption. But he is too busy chasing stories to notice that the world of crime is coming closer to home every day….

Suite in Éirinn an lae inniu, insíonn Corp & Anam scéal an chomhfhreagraí choireachta theilifíse Cathal Mac Iarnáin, atá mórálach as an scéal taobh thiar den scéal á lorg. I gceithre chlár díreacha a fhiosraíonn an líon mór drochrudaí atá sa tsochaí Éireannach, téann Mac Iarnáin ar thóir scéalta a bhaineann le faillí sa tseirbhís sláinte, péidifilia ar an idirlíon, meargántacht na rásaithe- carr óga, agus éilliú na ngardaí. Ach, tá sé ró-ghnóthach ag dul ar thóir scéalta le haithint go bhfuil saol na coireachta ag druidim air de réir a chéile….

Stiúrthóir Darach Mac Con Iomaire Léiritheoir Paddy Hayes Grianghrafadóireacht Ruairí O’Brien Eagarthóir Conall de Cléir Dearadh Léiriúcháin Nicola Moroney Ceol Colm Mac Con Iomaire Suíomh Éireannach Gaillimh Fad 4 x 50 nóiméad

Comhlacht Léiriúcháin Magamedia Teil +353 91 577 044 [email protected] Stádas Seachadta

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89 90 SHORT FILM SCHEMES SALES ENQUIRIES The IFB aims to invest in new talent by providing Network Ireland Television look after the sales of some opportunities for filmmakers to develop skills in live of the short films. Contact them on Tel +353 1 679 7309, action filmmaking, documentary, animation and [email protected] digital technology.

To this end we provide funding for short films through a series of schemes all of which welcome and actively encourage Irish language entries.

SIGNATURES SHORT SHORTS Signatures is the IFB flagship short film scheme. It Short Shorts aims to produce ultra short pieces, which showcases live action short filmmaking, encouraging can be used to promote Irish filmmaking with the high strong, original storytelling, visual flair and production impact power of advertisements, but without a product values appropriate to the big screen. These short to sell. The short films each year in this scheme films act as a proving-ground for Irish creative talents conform to a genre chosen for that year by the IFB. aspiring to write, direct and produce feature-length films for the cinema. The 2010 Short Shorts which premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh were silent shorts and were selected by The 2010 Signatures films premiered at the Cork Film Simon Perry (IFB), Fran Keaveney (IFB) and Marieta Festival and were selected by Andrew Meehan (IFB), Von Baumgarten. Fran Keaveney (IFB) and Ian Fitzgibbon.

VIRTUAL CINEMA REALITY BITES Virtual Cinema aims to encourage cinema for the Reality Bites is a short documentary scheme which YouTube generation by funding quality shorts which encourages the experimentation and realisation are suitable for viewing across multi-platforms. These of fresh approaches to non-fiction filmmaking, films are exclusively for an online audience and can be whether the documentary is journalistic or creative, viewed on YouTube and on the Media Hub on the Irish observational or aesthetic, objective or personal. Film Board website.

The 2010 Reality Bites documentaries premiered at the The 2010 Virtual Cinema films which premiered Cork Film Festival and were selected by Alan Maher at the Darklight Film Festival were selected by (IFB), Fran Keaveney (IFB) and Geoffrey Smith. Fran Keaveney (IFB), Louise Ryan (IFB) and Steve McCormack and Nicky Gogan (Wildwave).

FRAMEWORKS Frameworks is a short animation scheme which aims to encourage filmmakers with imagination, visual flair and commitment to innovative animation. It is also open to established animators who may wish to realize more personal and creative projects.

The 2010 Frameworks animations premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh and were selected by Emma Scott (IFB), Seamus Duggan (RTE), Fionnuala Sweeney (Arts Council) and Eric Rewiewer. 91 SHORT FILMS/ AS THE LIGHT LEAKS IN BLINKY™

To escape the turbulent and often-violent rages of her Meet Blinky™. All he wants is a friend. The only father, Frances makes a cardboard television set to problem is, he’s not very good at making friends. create a safe world. Director/Script/Editor Ruairi Robinson Producer Director/Script Shirley Weir Producer Frank Reid Nick Ryan Photography MacGregor Music Olafur Photography Patrick Jordan Editor Frank Reid Arnalds Main Cast Max Records Running Time Music Alex Leonard Main Cast Laura Way, Brian 12 minutes Fortune, Mia Weir Running Time 6 minutes Production Company Image Now Films Tel +353 1 411 Production Company Stitch Films Tel +353 86 395 3460 3310 [email protected] www.imagenow.ie [email protected]

BLUE RINSE COLLABORATION HORIZONTALE

Time may be a great healer, but he’s a lousy beautician. Captured in the iconic image from war photographer Still, blonde, brown, grey or even blue - your hair is your Robert Capa of the newly liberated French town of crowning glory no matter how old you are. Chartres during World War II, the film returns 65 years on to discover the fate that befell the young child, Director/Script Matt Leigh Producer Nodlag whose father was a German soldier, seen in the arms Houlihan Photography Kate McCullough Editor Guy of his shaven-headed mother as she’s jeered and Montgomery Music Hugh Drumm Running Time taunted by a local mob. 11 minutes Director Ciaran Cassidy Producer Morgan Bushe Production Company Zucca Films Limited Tel +353 86 Photography Kate McCullough Editor Florence 175 5678, +353 87 668 8541 [email protected] Brument Running Time 13 minutes

Production Company Fastnet Films Tel +353 1 478 9566 [email protected]

CROSSING SALWEEN DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

In Eastern Burma, a young girl finds herself orphaned Mark’s wife was killed due to corporate negligence. after her village is massacred by the army. She must On the night the clocks go back, he takes his revenge. make the arduous journey to the Salween River that divides the horrors of Burma and the safety of Thailand. Directors/Script Jason Butler, Brendan Butler Will her late father’s enduring love and promise of a Producer/Editor/Music Jason Butler Photography guardian angel be enough to shepherd her across the Stevie Russell Main Cast Rory Keenan, Enda Oates river where so many have fallen? Running Time 5 minutes

Director Brian O’Malley Script Brian O’Malley based Production Company Brothers Gonna Work It Out on short story by Gary Moore Producer Gary Moore Tel +353 1 456 2862 [email protected] Photography Richard Kendrick Editor Tony Kearns www.brothersgonnaworkitout.com Music Steve Lynch Main Cast Ronnachai “Mai” Wijitto, Thanawut “Dum” Kedsaro, Danai “Tung” Thiengtham Running Time 21 minutes

Production Company Red Rage Films Tel +353 1 662 3582 [email protected] 92 93 FLATBED DUMMY

The end of a relationship and a 30-tonne articulated As the useful life of a shop window mannequin comes lorry hurtling down a deserted motorway at night; to a close we follow her bizarre journey from certain Flatbed is not a conventional love story. destruction to second life.

Director/Script Tom Merilion Producer Jonny Speers Director/Script Brian Williams Producer Susan Mullen Photography Simon Walsh Editor Lee Hickey Music Photography John Conroy Editor Eugene McCrystal Howard Skempton Main Cast Alexina Davidson, Lee Running Time 3 minutes Clayden Running Time 5 minutes Production Company Parallel Film Productions Production Company Speers Film Tel +353 1 677 9642 Tel +353 1 236 0757 [email protected] [email protected]

FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY HEADSPACE

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy offers comfort in its familiar A boy distances himself from reality in an effort to cope Irish surroundings yet challenges stereotype, daring to with a cycle of abuse. explore female sexuality in later stages of life. Director/Script/Editor Patrick Semple Producer Barry Director Gemma Faith Producer Victoria McCollum O’Donoghue Art Director Ciaran Duffy Animators Tom Script Gemma Faith, Victoria McCollum Photography Caulfield, Eimhin McNamara, Eamonn O’Neill, Patrick PJ Dillon Editor Helen Sheridan Music Mark Gordon Semple Running Time 3 minutes Main Cast Nicola Lindsay, Ann Russell, Eamon Rohan Running Time 4 minutes Production Company Barley Films Tel +353 1 214 5940 [email protected] www.barleyfilms.net Production Company Ego Trim Pictures [email protected] www.egotrimpictures.com Official Selections Animadrid International Festival of the Animated Image of Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain 2010 24th Cinekid Festival for Children and Young People, Amsterdam 2010 20th Cinemagic International Film Festival for Young People, Belfast 2010

HEARING SILENCE LOFT

In a world where sound plays an increasingly A man and his pigeons live in fear of a young boy and frustrating role, we learn how professional musician his football… something must be done! Elizabeth Petcu is coping with going deaf. Director/Script Gareth Chambers Producer Steven Director/Script Hilary Fennell Producer Martha Davenport Photography Ruairi O’Brien Editor O’Neill Photography Alan O’Connor Editor Mairead Edmond Slattery Music Kieran Goss Main Cast Gerard McIvor Music Elizabeth Petcu Main Cast Elizabeth McSorley, Isaac O’Sullivan Running Time 5 minutes Petcu Running Time 12 minutes Production Company Underground Films steven@ Production Company Wildfire Films Tel +353 1 672 undergroundfilms.ie 5553 [email protected] www.wildfirefilms.net

94 95 NEEDLE EXCHANGE OL’ ONE EYE

Two recovering drug addicts practice tattooing on each An old man gets a new glass eye, however this is other and find over time they mark each other in more not your standard prosthetic. To his amazement he ways than merely the physical. discovers that he can in fact see with his new eye. While out walking following this discovery, he does Director Colm Quinn Producer Andrew Freedman what anyone else with a magic glass eye would do - Photography Aidan Maguire Editor Maeve O’Boyle a little spying! Music Denis Clohessy Main Cast Spencer Tofts, Glen Dalton Running Time 10 minutes Director/Script Brian Folan Producer Joanne Cunningham Photography Niall O’Connor Editor Production Company Venom Tel +353 1 497 5980 Shane Mulvey Music Vinny Murphy Main Cast Patrick [email protected] Curran, Danny O’Connor, Sarah O’Hanlon, Barry O’Neill Running Time 3 minutes

Contact Details Tel +353 86 240 9909 [email protected]

PAPERMAN PENTECOST

A lone man’s quest to find his true love in a busy paper When Damian is forced to serve as an altar boy at an metropolis. Will he find the Papergirl he hopes for? important mass in his local parish he faces a difficult choice: conform to the status quo or serve an extended This is the story of Paperman. ban from his passion in life... football.

Director Richard Kelly Script Richard Kelly, Sean Director/Script Peter McDonald Producer Eimear William Ryan Producer Jessica Kelly Editor Richard O’Kane Photography Patrick Jordan Editor John Kelly Music Giles Packham Running Time 6 minutes O’Connor Main Cast Andrew Bennett, Scott Graham, Michael McElhatton, Don Wycherley, Eamon Hunt Production Company Prickly Pear Productions Tel Running Time 11 minutes +353 1 627 6366 [email protected] [email protected] Production Company EMU Productions Tel +353 86 866 9698 [email protected] www. Official Selections emuproductions.ie Euroshorts Film Festival, Poland 2010 IRISHFILMFESTA, Rome 2010 Best Irish Short Film Corona Cork Film Festival 2010

RETURN TO ROSCOFF SIGNS

A woman attempts to introduce her son to his There is magic in what we see every day. Sometimes estranged father. we just have to look hard enough.

Director/Script/Editor Ken Wardrop Producer Andrew Director/Producer/Script/Editor Vincent Gallagher Freedman Photography Kate McCullough Music Denis Photography Stevie Russell Music Andy Walsh Clohessy Main Cast Lesley Conroy, Tadgh O’Reilly, Running Time 3 minutes Mathieu Busson, Julian Kramer Running Time 14 minutes Contact Details Tel +353 87 773 9360 pullthestrings@ gmail.com Production Company Venom Tel +353 1 497 5980 [email protected]

96 97 SPANX & EVE SPECIAL ED

Spanx & Eve reveals the secrets of bridal underwear Two parents fret over the lack of services and facilities with all its pain, sweat, frustration and tears! The hair, available to their special needs son. They’re finding the makeup, the nails are done, and ‘the dress’ in all its it hard to cope with the trouble caused by his white magnificence hangs ready for the big day parade unusual ‘disability’. up the aisle. But first the bride must tug, scoop, jiggle, hitch and slide her way into the underwear from hell! Director/Script Hugh Travers Producer Claire McCaughley Photography Andrew Smyth Editor Director/Producer/Script Tonyia Dowling Edel McDonnell Main Cast Andrea Irvine, Paul Roe Photography Tom Comerford Editor Joe McElwaine Running Time 3 minutes Music Greg French Main Cast Lisa Garvey, Sharon Mannion, Eoghan McLaughlin Running Time 4 minutes Production Company Rubicon Films Tel +353 1 475 8820 [email protected] Contact details Tel +353 87 222 6441 tonyia.dowling @rte.ie

THE CHRISTENING THE INVENTION OF THE LIGHTBULB

Ailbhe is a smart and confident Irish teenager. Edison has a bright idea. Nothing fazes her except the christening of her nephew this weekend. Director/Editor Lorcan Finnegan Producer Brunella Cocchiglia Script/Main Cast Kevin Gildea Music Director/Script Oonagh Kearney Producer Rachel Graham Newcombe Running Time 1 minute Lysaght Photography PJ Dillon Editor Charlotte Munch Bengtsen Music Roger Goula Main Cast Emma Willis Production Company Lovely Productions Tel +353 Running Time 14 minutes 86 125 9794 [email protected] www. lovelyproductions.com Production Company Underground Films Tel + 353 87 285 9749 [email protected]

THE IRISH DOG WHISPERER THE MEANING OF EGGISTENCE

Sorcha and Fergus get more than they bargained for A man is attacked by a swan and subsequently gives when they enlist the help of The Irish Dog Whisperer. birth to an egg. He grows to love the egg and looks after it until the day it hatches. Director/Producer Ivan McMahon Script Shane Perez Photography Gerry Conway Editor Johan Molenaar Director/Script Bruce Ryder Producer/Music Stephen Main Cast Una Kavanagh, Jude Quigley, Columba Rennicks Editor Alan Foley Main Cast John Venables Heneghan Running Time 3 minutes Running Time 8 minutes

Production Company Two Hungry Fish Productions Production Company Freerange Films Tel +353 86 804 6943 [email protected] [email protected]; www.freerangefilms.ie www.twohungryfishproductions.com Honorable Mention Galway Film Fleadh 2010

98 99 THE MONK AND THE FLY THE NIGHT NURSE

A contented Monk relaxes under a shady Banyan A nurse doing the graveyard shift on a psychiatric tree on a peaceful summer’s day. What could possibly ward searches frantically for a missing patient, only to go wrong? discover the terrible truth behind the disappearance.

Director/Script Matthew Darragh Producer Sean Director/Script Terence White Producer Ian W. Davis Smith Editor Brian O’Brien Music Jonathan Atkinson Photography Kate McCullough Editor Anna-Maria Running Time 3 minutes O’ Flanagan Music Brian Crosby Main Cast Ger Ryan Running Time 4 minutes Production Company Souljacker Tel +353 87 912 5153 [email protected] www.souljacker.ie Production Company DIG Productions Tel +353 87 295 4844 [email protected] www.digproductions.ie

TV DINNER THE PARTING

A darkly comic musing on mankind’s somewhat A mother struggles to come to terms with the death dubious position at the top of the food chain. of her young son.

Director/Producer Ivan McMahon Script Molly Director Ivan Mc Mahon Script Molly O’Driscoll O’Driscoll Photography Gerry Conway Editor Johan Producer Adrian Devane Photography PJ Dillon Editor Molenaar Main Cast Francis Ryan, Adrienne Lee, Manuela Corbari Music Steven Stapleton, Katharina Louis Aspil, Bill Murphy Running Time 2 minutes Baker Main Cast Dawn Bradfield, Ben McLucas- McGlynn Running Time 6 minutes Production Company Two Hungry Fish Productions Tel +353 86 804 6943 [email protected] Production Company Two Hungry Fish Productions www.twohungryfishproductions.com Tel +353 87 297 9131 [email protected] www.twohungryfishproductions.com

SHOE

Vince is about to kill himself - but that crazy beggar keeps killing the mood.

Director/Script/Music Nick Kelly Producer Seamus Byrne Photography David Grennan Editor Mairead McIvor Main Cast Peter Coonan, Pat Kinevane Running Time 13 minutes

Production Company Zanita Films Tel +353 1 276 9541 [email protected]

Shortlisted for Best Short Film Academy Award® nomination 2011

100 101 102 103 FILM DIRECTORY/ 1993 – 2010 32A 2007 / Director/Script: Marian Quinn, Producers: As If I Am Not There 2010 / Director/Script: Juanita Tommy Weir, Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, Production Wilson, Producers: Nathalie Lichtenthaler, James Company: Janey Pictures. Flynn, Production Company: Octagon Films.

48 Angels 2006 / Director: Marion Comer, Writers: A Film With Me In It 2008 / Director: Ian Fitzgibbon, Marion Comer, Craig Holland, Producers: John Producers: Alan Moloney, Susan Mullen, Script: McDonnell, Robert Medema, Marion Comer, Production Mark Doherty, Production Company: Parallel Company: Reflected Light Pictures. Film Productions.

A A Kiss For Jed Wood 2010 / Director: Maurice About Adam 1999 / Director: Gerard Stembridge, Linnane, Producer: Tim Palmer, Script: Barry Devlin, Producers: Anna Devlin, Marina Hughes, Script: Maurice Linnane, Production Company: Ignition Film Gerard Stembridge, Production Company: Venus Productions. Film & Television. A Love Divided 1998 / Director: Syd Macartney, The Actors 2003 / Director/Script: Conor McPherson, Producers: Tim Palmer, Alan Moloney, Gerry Gregg, Story by: Neil Jordan, Producers: Neil Jordan, Script: Stuart Hepburn, Production Company: Redmond Morris, Stephen Woolley, Production Parallel Films. Company: Company of Wolves. A Man of No Importance 1993 / Director: Suri Ailsa 1993 / Director: Paddy Breathnach, Producer: Krishnama, Producer: Jonathan Cavendish, Script: Ed Guiney, Script: Joe O’Connor, Production Barry Devlin, Production Company: Little Bird. Company: Temple Films. A Shine of Rainbows 2009 / Director: Vic Sarin, Accelerator 1999 / Director: Vinny Murphy, Producer: Producers: Tina Phelme, Kim Roberts, James Flynn, Michael Garland, Script: Mark Stewart, Vinny Murphy, Script: Danis Foon, Catherine Spear, Vic Sarin, Production Company: Two For the Show. Production Companies: Octagon Films, Sepia Films.

Adam & Paul 2004 / Director: Lenny Abrahamson, B Producer: Jonny Speers, Executive Producers: Andrew Beckett on Film 2000 / Act Without Words II, Director: Lowe, Ed Guiney, Script: Mark O’Halloran, Production Karel Reisz, Act Without Words II, Director: Enda Company: Porridge Pictures. Hughes, A Piece of Monologue, Director: Robin Lefevre, Breath, Director: Damien Hirst, Catastrophe, A Further Gesture 1996 / Director: Robert Dornhelm, Director: David Mamet, Come and Go, Director: John Producers: David Collins, Chris Curling, Script: Ronan Crowley, Endgame, Director: Conor McPherson, Bennett, Production Company: Samson Films. Footfalls, Director: Walter Aasmus, Happy Days, Director: Patricia Rozema, Krapp’s Last Tape, Agnes Browne 1999 / Director: Anjelica Huston, Director: Atom Egoyan, Not I, Director: Neil Jordan, Producers: Jim Sheridan, Arthur Lappin, Greg Smith, Ohio Impromptu, Director: Charles Surridge, Play, Anjelica Huston, Script: Brendan O’Carroll, John Director: Anthony Minghella, Rockaby, Director: Goldsmith, Production Company: Hell’s Kitchen. Richard Eyre, Rough for Theatre I, Director: Kieron J. Walsh, Rough for Theatre II, Director: Katie Mitchell, Alarm 2008 / Director/Script Gerard Stembridge, That Time, Director: Hales Garrad, Waiting for Producers: Anna Devlin, Marina Hughes, Production Godot, Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg, What Company: Venus Productions. Where, Director: Damien O’Donnell, Producers: Alan Moloney, Michael Colgan Production Company: Blue All Good Children 2010 / Director: Alicia Duffy, Angel Films. Producers: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Jonathan Cavendish, Tom Dercourt, Patrick Quinet, Production Becoming Jane 2007 / Director: Julian Jarrold, Company: Element Pictures. Producers: Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Graham Broadbent, James Flynn, Morgan O’Sullivan, Script: All Soul’s Day 1997 / Director/Script: Alan Gilsenan, Kevin Hood, Sarah Williams, Production Company: Producer: David McLoughlin, Production Company: Ecosse Films, Blueprint Films, Octagon Films. Yellow Asylum Films. Between The Canals 2010 / Director/Script: Mark All Things Bright and Beautiful 1993 / Director: Barry O’Connor, Producer: Deirdre Barry, Production Devlin, Producer: Katy McGuinness, Script: Barry Company: Avalon Films. Devlin, Production Company: The Good Film Co.

104 Black Day at Black Rock 2000 / Director/Script: Cherrybomb 2009 / Directors: Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Gerard Stembridge, Producers: Anna Devlin, Marina Leyburn, Producers: Michael Casey, Mark Huffam, Hughes, Production Company: Venus Films. Brian Kirk, Script: Daragh Carville, Production Companies: Octagon Films, Green Park Films, Blind Flight 2004 / Director: John Furse, Producers: Generator Entertainment. Sally Hibbin, David Collins, Eddie Dick, Script: Brian Keenan, John Furse, Production Company: Circle of Friends 1993 / Director: Pat O’Connor, Samson Films. Producers: Frank Price, Arlene Sellers, Alex Winitsky, Script: Andrew Davies, Production Company: Bloody Sunday 2001 / Director/Script: Paul Good Girls. Greengrass, Producers: Mark Redhead, Jim Sheridan, Arthur Lappin, Production Company: Hell’s Kitchen. Circus Fantasticus 2010 / Director/Script: Janez Burger, Producers: Morgan Bushe, Jozko Rutar, Bloom 2004 / Director/Script: Sean Walsh, Producers: Petri Rossi, Production Companies: Fastnet Films, Sean Walsh, Gerry Murphy, Mark Byrne, Production Staragara Productions. Company: Odyssey Pictures. Conamara 2000 / Director: Eoin Moore, Producer: Bogwoman 1997 / Director/Script: Tom Collins, Ingrid Holzapfel, Script: Greg Brennan, Production Producers: Martha O’Neill, Tom Collins, Production Company: Boje Buck Produktion. Company: De Facto Film & Video. Country 2000 / Director/Script: Kevin Liddy, Producer: Borstal Boy 2000 / Director: Peter Sheridan, Jack Armstrong, Production Company: Indi Films. Producers: Pat Moylan, Arthur Lappin, Jim Sheridan, Script: Peter Sheridan, Nye Heron, Production Cowboys & Angels 2004 / Director/Script: David Company: Hell’s Kitchen. Gleeson, Producer: Nathalie Lichtenthaeler, Production Company: Wide Eye Films. Boxed 2003 / Director/Script: Marion Comer, Producers: Laurence Penn, Lene Bausager, Douglas The Crooked Mile 2001 / Director/Script: Stephen Graham, Production Companies: Fireproof Films, Kane, Producers: Triona Campbell, Avril Ryan, Ugly Duckling Films. Production Company: Campbell Ryan Productions.

The Boxer 1998 / Producer/Director: Jim Sheridan, Cracks 2009 / Director: Jordan Scott, Producers: Producer: Arthur Lappin, Script: Terry George, Julie Payne, Kwesi Dickson, Rosalie Swedlin, Andrew Production Company: Hell’s Kitchen. Lowe, Christine Vachon Script: Caroline Ip, Ben Court, Jordan Scott, Production Companies: Element Boy Eats Girl 2005 / Director: Stephen Bradley, Pictures, Future Films, Antenna 3 Films, Scott Free. Producers: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Script: Derek Landy, Stephen Bradley, Production Company: Crushproof 1997 / Director: Paul Tickell, Producers: Element Films. Nicholas O’Neill, Kees Kassander, Script: James Mathers, Production Company: Liquid Films. The Boy from Mercury 1996 / Director/ Script: Martin Duffy, Producer: Marina Hughes, Production D Company: Mercurian Films. The Daisy Chain 2008 / Director: Aisling Walsh, Producers: Tristan Orpen Lynch, Dominic Wright, Breakfast on Pluto 2006 / Director: Neil Jordan Script: Script: Lauren Mackenzie, Production Company: Neil Jordan, Patrick McCabe (based on the book by Subotica Entertainment. Patrick McCabe), Producers: Alan Moloney, Neil Jordan, Stephen Woolley, Production Companies: Dancing at Lughnasa 1998 / Director: Pat O’Connor, Parallel Films, Number 9 Films. Producer: Noel Pearson, Script: Frank McGuinness, Production Company: Ferndale Films. Broken Harvest 1993 / Director: Maurice O’Callaghan, Producer: Jerry O’Callaghan, Script: Dead Bodies 2003 / Director: Robert Quinn, Producers: Kate O’Callaghan, Maurice O’Callaghan, Production David McLoughlin, Clare Scully, Script: Derek Landy, Company: Destiny Films. Production Company: Distinguished Features.

C Dead Long Enough 2006 / Director: Tom Collins, Chaos 2001 / Director/Script: Geraldine Creed, Script: James Hawes, Tom Collins, Producer: Paul Producer: Brendan McCarthy, Production Company: Donovan, Production Company: Grand Pictures. Blue Light Productions.

105 Dead Meat 2004 / Director/Script: Conor McMahon, Five Minutes of Heaven 2009 / Director: Oliver Producers: Ed King, Michael Griffin, Production Hirschbiegel, Producers: Eoin O’Callaghan, Ed Company: 3 Way Productions. Guiney, Andrew Lowe Script: Guy Hibbert Production Companies: Element Pictures, Big Fish Films, The Disappearance of Finbar 1994/95 / Director: Sue Ruby Films. Clayton, Producers: David Collins, Bertil Ohlsson, Martin Bruce Clayton, Script: Dermot Bolger, Flick 1999 / Director: Fintan Connolly, Producer: Production Company: Samson Films. Fiona Bergin, Script: Fintan Connolly, Production Company: Fubar. Disco Pigs 2000 / Director: Kirsten Seridan, Producer: Ed Guiney, Script: Enda Walsh, Production Company: Foxes 2009 / Director/Script: Mira Fornayovà, Temple Films. Producers: David Collins, Brian Willis, Viktor Schwarcz, Juraj Buzalka, Production Companies: Samson Films, Drinking Crude 1997 / Writer/Director: Owen McPolin, Cineart TV Prague, Miras SRO. Producers: Kim Tapsell, Gerry Johnston, Production Company: Sweetskin. Frankie Starlight 1994/95 / Director: Michael Lindsay- Hogg, Producer: Noel Pearson, Script: Chet Raymo, Dorothy Mills 2008 / Director: Agnes Merlet, Ronan O’Leary, Production Company: Ferndale Films. Producers: Marc Missonnier, Eric Jehelman, James Flynn, Script: Agnes Merlet, Juliette Sales, Production Freeze Frame 2004 / Director/Script: John Simpson, Companies: Fidélité Films, Octagon Films. Producers: Michael Casey, Martha O’Neill, Production Companies: Parallel World Productions, Wildfire Films. E Eamon 2009 / Director/Script: Margaret Corkery, The Front Line 2006 / Director/Writer: David Gleeson, Producer: Seamus Byrne, Production Company: Producers: Natalie Lichtenhaler, James Flynn, Zanita Films Production Company: Wide Eye Films.

The Eclipse 2009 / Director: Conor McPherson, G Producer: Rob Walpole, Script: Conor Mc Pherson, Garage 2007 / Director: Lenny Abrahamson, Billy Roche, Production Company: Treasure Producers: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Script: Mark Entertainment. O’Halloran, Production Company: Element Pictures.

Eden 2008 / Director: Declan Recks, Producer: David The General 1998 / Writer/Producer/Director: John Collins, Script: Eugene O’Brien, Production Company: Boorman, Production Company: Merlin Films. Samson Films. Gold in the Streets 1996 / Director: Elizabeth Gill, The Englishman 2008 / Director: Ian Sellers, Producer: Noel Pearson, Script: Janet Noble, Noel Producers: Teresa Mulqueen, David Collins, Script: Pearson, Production Company: Ferndale Films. Ian Sellers, Brendan Grant, Production Company: Samson Films. Goldfish Memory 2003 / Director/Script: Liz Gill, Producer: Breda Walsh, Production Company: The Escapist 2007 / Director: Rupert Wyatt, Goldfish Films. Producers: Adrian Sturges, Alan Moloney, Script: Rupert Wyatt, Daniel Hardy, Production Company: The Guard 2010 / Director/Script: John Michael Parallel Film Productions. McDonagh, Producers: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez Marengo, Production F Companies: Element Pictures, Reprisal Films. The Fading Light 2010 / Director/Script: Ivan Kavanagh, Producer: AnneMarie Naughton, Guiltrip 1994/95 / Director: Gerry Stembridge, Production Company: Park Films. Producer: Ed Guiney, Script: Gerry Stembridge, Production Company: Temple Films. The Fifth Province 1997 / Director: Frank Stapleton, Producers: Catherine Tiernan, Nina Fitzpatrick, Frank H Stapleton, Production Company: Ocean Films. H3 2001 / Director: Les Blair, Producers: James Flynn, Juanita Wilson, Script: Laurence McKeown, Five Day Shelter 2010 / Director/Script: Ger Leonard, Brian Campbell, Production Company: Metropolitan Producers: Liam O’Neill, Villi Ragnarsson, Production Films. Company: Paradox Pictures.

106 The Halo Effect 2004 / Director/Script: Lance Daly, The Investigator (A Nyomaz) 2009 / Director/Script: Producers: Macdara Kelleher, Hughie Kelly, Executive Attila Galambos, Producers: Ferenc Pusztai, Macdara Producers: John Kelleher, Les Kelly, Production Kelleher, Martin Persson, Production Companies: Company: Fastnet Films. Fastnet Films, KMH Film, Anagram Production Inside I’m Dancing 2004 / Director: Damien O’Donnell, The Hanged Man (El Juego del Adhorcado) 2009 Producers: James Flynn, Juanita Wilson, Catherine / Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira, Producers: Tiernan, Script: Jeffrey Caine, based on a story by Ana Amigo, Tristan Orpen Lynch, Dominic Wright Christian O’Reilly, Production Company: Octagon Films. Production Companies: Subotica Entertainment, Amigo Productions, Cinematograficas, Lennon Proucciones. Intermission 2003 / Director: John Crowley, Producers: Neil Jordan, Alan Moloney, Stephen Happy Ever Afters 2009 / Director/Script: Stephen Woolley, Writer: Mark O’Rowe, Production Burke, Producer: Lesley McKimm, Production Companies: Parallel Films, Company of Wolves. Company: Newgrange Pictures. Isolation 2006 / Director/Script: Billy O’Brien, Headrush 2003 / Director/Script: Shimmy Marcus, Producers: Ruth Kenley-Letts, Bertrand Faivre, Producer: Edwina Forkin, Production Company: Ed Guiney, Production Companies: Element Films, Zanzibar Films. The Bureau.

Helen 2009 / Directors/Script: Christine Molloy, Joe J Lawlor, Producer: Joe Lawlor, Production Company: Johnny Was 2006 / Director: Mark Hammond, Desperate Optimists Writer: Brendan Foley, Producers: Patrick Fitzsymons, Tom Maguire, Paul Largan, Lars Hermann, Ira His & Hers 2009 / Director/Script: Ken Wardrop, Besserman, Brendan Foley, Production Company: Producer: Andrew Freedman, Production Borderline Productions. Company: Venom. K The Honeymooners 2004 / Director/Script: Karl Kill Daddy, Goodnight (Das Vaterspiel) 2008 / Golden, Producers: Martina Niland, Martin Brinkler, Director/Script: Michael Glawogger, Producers: Production Company: Samson Films. Christine Ruppert, Lesley McKinn, Production Companies: Tatfilm, Newgrange Films. How About You 2007 / Director: Anthony Byrne, Producer: Noel Pearson, Script: Jean Paisley, Kings 2007 / Director/Script: Tom Collins, Producer: Production Company: Ferndale Films. Jackie Larkin, Production Company: Newgrange Pictures. How Harry Became a Tree 2001 / Director: Goran Paskaljevic, Producer: Liam O’Neill, Script: Goran Kisses 2008 / Director/Script: Lance Daly, Producer: Paskaljevic, Stephen Walsh, Production Company: Macdara Kelleher, Production Company: Fastnet Films. Paradox Films. Korea 1993 / Director: Cathal Black, Producer: Darryl How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate 1997 / Collins, Script: Joe O’Byrne, Production Company: Director: Graham Jones, Producers: Graham Jones, Black Star Films/Cathal Black Films. Ciara Flanagan, Script: Graham Jones, Tadhg O’Higgins, Aislinn O’Loughlin, Production Company: L Graham Jones. The Last Bus Home 1997 / Director/Script: Johnny Gogan, Producer: Paul Donovan, Production High Boot Benny 1993 / Director: Joe Comerford, Company: Grand Pictures. Producer: David Kelly, Script: Joe Comerford, Production Company: Sandy Films. The Last of the High Kings 1994/95 / Director: David Keating, Producer: Tim Palmer, Script: David Keating, I Gabriel Byrne, Production Company: Parallel Films. I Could Read the Sky 1999 / Director: Nichola Bruce, Producers: Janine Marmot, Nicholas O’Neill, Script: The Last September 1999 / Director: Deborah Warner, Nichola Bruce, based on the book by Timothy O’Grady Producer: Yvonne Thunder, Script: John Banville, & Steve Pyke, Production Company: Liquid Films. Production Company: Thunder Pictures.

I Went Down 1997 / Director: Paddy Breathnach, Le Dernier Mot 1999 / Director: Sebastien Grall, Producer: Rob Walpole, Script: Conor McPherson, Producers: John Kelleher, Fabienne Servan-Schreiber, Production Company: Treasure Films. Script: Anne Valton, Marina Ní Dhubhain, Production Company: Fastnet Films. 107 108 Mystics 2003 / Director: David Blair, Producers: Mark The Looking Glass 2010 / Director/Script: Colin O’Sullivan, Michael Ryan, Nigel Warren Green, Script: Downey, Producer: Eimear O’Kane, Production Wesley Burrows, Production Company: MR Films Company: EMU Productions. N Love and Rage 1998 / Producer/Director: Cathal Night Train 1998 / Director: John Lynch, Producer: Black, Producer: Rudolf Wichmann, Script: Brian Tristan Orpen Lynch, Script: Aodhan Madden, Lynch, Production Company: Cathal Black. Production Company: Subotica Entertainment.

Love and Savagery 2009 / Director: John Smith Niko and the Way to the Stars 2008 / Directors: Producers: Barbara Doran, Lynne Wilson, Kevin Tierney, Michael Hegner, Kari Juusonen, Script: Hannu Tristan Orpen Lynch, Script: Des Walsh, Production Tuomainen, Marteinn Thorisson, Mark Hodkinson, Companies: Subotica Entertainment, Morag Loves Production Companies: Magma Films, Animaker, Company, Park Ex Pictures. Ulysses Films, Afilm.

M Nora 1999 / Director: Pat Murphy, Producers: James The Magdalene Sisters 2003 / Director/ Script: Flynn, Tracey Seaward, Script: Pat Murphy, Gerard Peter Mullan, Producers: Ed Guiney, Frances Higson, Stembridge, Production Company: Volta/Metropolitan Production Company: Element Films. Films.

Man About Dog 2004 / Director: Paddy Breathnach, Not Afraid, Not Afraid 2001 / Director: Annette Producers: Robert Walpole, Simon Channing Williams, Carducci, Producers: Morgan O’Sullivan, James Flynn, Script: Pearse Elliott, Production Companies: Treasure Howard Gibbins, Script: Annette Carducci, Barry Entertainment, Potboiler Productions. Devlin, Production Company: World 2000.

Mapmaker 2001 / Director/Script: Johnny Gogan, Nothing Personal 1994/95 / Director: Thaddeus Producer: Paul Donovan, Production Company: O’Sullivan, Producers: Tracey Seaward, Jonathan Grand Pictures. Cavendish, Script: Danny Mornin, Production Company: Little Bird. Mickybo & Me 2005 / Director/Script: Terry Loane, Producers: Mark Huffam, Mike McGeagh, Production Nothing Personal 2009 / Director/Script: Urszula Companies: Octagon Films, New Moon Pictures. Antoniak, Producers: Reinier Selen, Edwin van Meurs, Morgan Bushe, Production Companies: Fastnet Films, Middletown 2006 / Director: Brian Kirk, Script: Daragh Rinkel Film, Family Affair Films. Carville, Producers: Michael Casey, Mark Byrne, Martha O’Neill, Production Company: Green Park Films. November Afternoon 1996 / Directors: John Carney, Tom Hall, Producer: Pat O’Donoghue, Script: John The Mighty Celt 2005 / Director/Script: Pearse Elliott, Carney, Tom Hall, Production Company: High Producers: Robert Walpole,Paddy McDonald, Paddy Hat Productions. Breathnach, Michael Casey, Production Companies: Treasure Entertainment, Green Park Films. O Omagh 2004 / Director: Pete Travis, Producers: Moondance 1993 / Director: Dagmar Hirtz, Producers: Ed Guiney, Paul Greengrass, Script: Guy Hibbert, James Mitchell, Jonathan Cavendish, Script: Burt Paul Greengrass, Production Company: Hells Weinshanker, Production Company: Little Bird. Kitchen International.

The Most Fertile Man in Ireland 2000 / Director: Dudi Once 2007 / Director/ Script: John Carney, Producers: Appleton, Producer: David Collins, Script: Jim Keeble, Martina Niland, David Collins, Production Company: Production Company: Samson Films. Samson Films.

My Brothers 2010 / Director: Paul Fraser, Producers: Ondine 2009 / Director/ Script: Neil Jordan, Rebecca O’Flanagan, Rob Walpole, Script: William Producers: Neil Jordan, James Flynn, Ben Collins, Production Company: Rubicon Films. Browning Production Company: Octagon Films.

My Friend Joe 1994/95 / Director: Chris Bould, One Hundred Mornings 2009 / Director/Script: Conor Producers: Michael O’Connell, Gerhard Schmidt, Horgan, Producer: Katie Holly, Production Company: Script: David Howard, Declan Hughes, Production Blinder Films Company: ProMedia.

108 109 On the Nose 2000 / Director: David Caffrey, The Runway 2010 / Director/Script: Ian Power, Producers: Tristan Orpen Lynch, Scott Kennedy, Producers: Macdara Kelleher, Brendan McDonald, Script: Tony Philpott, Production Company: Subotica Bernard Michaux, Production Companies: Fastnet Entertainment. Films, Lucil Films.

Ordinary Decent Criminal 1999 / Director: Thaddeus S O’Sullivan, Producer: Jonathan Cavendish, Script: Saltwater 1999 / Director/Script: Conor McPherson, Gerry Stembridge, Production Company: Little Bird. Producer: Robert Walpole, Production Company: Treasure Films. Our Wonderful Home 2008 / Director/Script: Ivan Kavanagh, Producers: Dominic Wright, Jacqueline Savage 2009 / Director/Script: Brendan Muldowney, Kerrin, Production Company: Ripple World Pictures. Producer: Conor Barry, Production Company: SP Films.

Outcast 2010 / Director/Script: Colm McCarthy, Seaside Stories 2010 / Director/Producer/Script: Producers: John McDonnell, Brendan McCarthy, Fergus Tighe, Production Company: Gallivanting Media. Production Companies: Fantastic Films, Makar Films. The Secret of Kells 2008 / Directors: Tomm Moore, P Nora Twomey, Producers: Paul Young, Didier Brunner, Park 1999 / Directors/Producers: John Carney, Tom Vivian Van Fleteran, Script: Fabirce Ziolkowski, Tomm Hall, Script: John Carney, Production Company: High Moore Production Company: Cartoon Saloon. Hat Productions. Sensation 2010 / Director/Script: Tom Hall, Pavee Lackeen 2005 / Director: Perry Ogden, Producers: Katie Holly, Kieron J. Walsh, Production Producers: Perry Ogden, Martina Niland, John Company: Blinder Films. Rocha, Script: Perry Ogden, Mark Venner, Production Company: An Lár Films. Separation Anxiety 1997 / Director: Mark Staunton, Producer: Liam O’Neill, Script: Shelagh Harcourt, Peaches 2000 / Director/Script: Nick Grosso, Production Company: Paradox Pictures/Dogtown Films. Producer: Ronan Glennane, Production Company: Stone Ridge Films. Shrooms 2007 / Director: Paddy Breathnach, Producers: Robert Walpole, Paddy McDonald, Script: Pearse Elliott, Perrier’s Bounty 2009 / Director: Ian Fitzgibbon, Production Company: Treasure Entertainment. Producers: Alan Moloney, Stephen Wolley, Elizabeth Silent Grace / Director/Producer/ Script: ve Karlsen, Script: Mark O’Rowe, Production Company: 2001 Mae Murphy, Production Company: Follower Productions. Parallel Film Productions. Small Engine Repair 2007 / Director/Script: Niall Pete’s Meteor 1998 / Director/Script: Joe O’Byrne, Heery, Producers: Tristan Orpen Lynch, Dominic Producers: yons, Production Liam O’Neill, John L Wright, Production Company: Subotica Entertainment. Company: Paradox Pictures. Snakes and Ladders 1994/95 / Director: Trish McAdam, Princess (Prinsessa) 2009 / Director/ Script: Teresa Producers: Lilyan Sievernich, Chris Sievernich, Script: Fabik, Producers: Sandra Harms, Morgan Bushe, Trish McAdam, Production Company: Livia Films. Production Companies: Fastnet Films, Breidablick Film Production Snap 2010 / Director/Script: Carmel Winters, Producer: Martina Niland, Production Company: Puckoon 2001 / Director/Script: Terence Ryan, Samson Films. Producers: Ken Tuohy, Terence Ryan, Production Company: Distinguished Features. Some Mother’s Son 1996 / Director/Writer: Terry George, Producers: Jim Sheridan, Arthur Lappin, Ed R Burke, Production Company: Hell’s Kitchen. The Race 2009 / Director: André Nebe, Producers: Michael Garland, Martin Hagemann Script: Rowan Some Other Stories 2010 / Directors: Ivona Juka, Ana O’Neill, Production Companies: Grand Pictures, Zero Maria Rossi, Marija Dzidzeva, Ines Tanovic, Hannah West Film Produkton. Slak, Producers: Ian W. Davis, James Flynn, Anita Juka, Nenad, Dukic, Alem Babic, Tomi Salkovski, Rewind 2010 / Director: PJ Dillon, Producers: Alex Dunja, Kemenc, Script: Ivona Juka, Ana Maria Jones, John Wallace, Script: PJ Dillon, Ronan Carr, Rossi, Ines Tanovic, Gjorche Stavreski, Hanna Slak, Production Company: Carbon Films. Production Companies: DIG Productions, Octagon Films, See Films Pro, Studio Maj Production, 4 Film, Dokument, Skopje Film Studio.

109 110 Song for a Raggy Boy 2003 / Director: Aisling Walsh, This is the Sea 1996 / Director/Writer: Mary Producers: Tristan Orpen Lynch, Dominic Wright, John McGuckian, Producer: Michael Garland, Production McDonnell, Kevin Byron Murphy, Script: Aisling Walsh, Company: Pembridge Productions. Kevin Byron Murphy, based on book by Patrick Galvin, Production Company: Subotica. Timbuktu 2003 / Director: Alan Gilsenan, Producers: Martin Mahon, John McDonnell, Emma Scott, Script: Spaghetti Slow 1996 / Director: Valerio Jalongo, Paul Freaney, Production Companies: Yellow Asylum Producers: Katy McGuinness, Carlos Pasini Hansen, Films, Fantastic Films, MR Films. Script: Barry Devlin, Valerio Jalongo, Lucinda Coxon, Production Company: The Good Film Company. Tonight is Cancelled 2007 / Director/Script: Brendan Grant, Producer: Macdara Kelleher, Production Speed Dating 2007 / Director/Script: Tony Herbert, Company: Fastnet Films. Producers: John Conroy, Tony Herbert, Production Company: System 48. Triage 2009 / Director/Script: Danis Tanovic, Producers: Alan Moloney, Cedomir Kolar, Mark Baschet, Production Spin the Bottle 2003 / Director: Ian FitzGibbon, Companies: Parallel Film Productions, ASAP Films, Producer: Michael Garland, Script: Ian FitzGibbon, Tornasol Films, Freeform Spain Michael McElhatton, Production Company: Grand Pictures. Trojan Eddie 1996 / Director: Gillies MacKinnon, Producers: Seamus Byrne, Emma Burge, Script: Billy Studs 2006 / Director/Writer: Paul Mercier, Producers: Roche, Production Company: Irish Screen. Fiach Mac Conghail, Cuán Mac Conghail, Production Company: Brother Films. Trouble With Sex 2005 / Director: Fintan Connolly, Producer: Fiona Bergin, Script: Fintan Connolly, Sugar 2005 / Directors: Patrick Jolley, Reynold Catriona McGowan, Production Company: FUBAR. Reynolds, Producers: Samara Golden, Patrick Jolley, Reynold Reynolds,Edwina Forkin Script: Reynold U Reynolds, Samara Golden, Patrick Jolley, Production Ugly Duckling & Me! 2007 / Directors: Michael Companies: Zanzibar Films, Make Films. Hegner, Karsten Kiilerich, Producers: Ralph Christians, Anders Maastrup, Moe Honan, Daina Sacco, Summer of the Flying Saucer 2008 / Director: Martin Script: Mark Hodkinson, Production Companies: Duffy, Producers: Ralph Christians, Clodagh Freeman, Magma Films, A Film Futurikon, Ulysses. Script: Marleinn Thorisson, Production Company: Magma Films. V Vasha 2009 / Director/Script: Hannu Salonen, The Sun, the Moon and the Stars 1996 / Director/ Producers: Piret Tibbo-Hudgins, Philipp Homberg, Writer: Geraldine Creed, Producer: Brendan Jarkko Hentula, Nathalie Lichtenthaeler Production McCarthy, Production Company: Blue Light. Companies: Wide Eye Films, Homberg Film Produktion, All Film, Juoni Filmi Sunset Heights 1998 / Director: Colm Villa, Producers: Denis Bradley, James Flynn, Script: Colm W Villa, Production Company: Northland Films. Wake Wood 2009 / Director: David Keating, Producers: John McDonnell, Brendan McCarthy, Script: Brendan Swansong – The Story of Occi Byrne 2009 / Director/ McCarthy, Production Companies: Fantastic Films, Script: Conor McDermottroe, Producers: Hermann Solid Entertainment. Florin, Edwina Forkin, Tom Maguire, Production Companies: Zanzibar Films, Florin Film. When Brendan Met Trudy 2000 / Director: Kieron J. Walsh, Producer: Lynda Myles, Script: Roddy Doyle, Sweety Barrett 1998 / Director/Script: Stephen Production Company: Deadly Films 2. Bradley, Producer: Ed Guiney, Production Company: Temple Films. When The Sky Falls 1999 / Director: John Mackenzie, Producers: Nigel Warren-Green, Michael Wearing, T Script: Colum McCann, Michael Sheridan, Ronan Tara Road 2005 / Director: Gillies MacKinnon, Gallagher, Production Company: Irish Screen. Producers: Noel Pearson, Miron Blumental, Sarah Radclyffe, Script: Cynthia Cidre, Shane Connaughton, Wide Open Spaces 2009 / Director: Tom Hall, Script: Production Company: Ferndale Films. Arthur Matthews, Producers: Paul Donovan, Clare Kerr Production Companies: Grand Pictures, Mead Kerr. The Tiger’s Tail 2006 / Director/Writer: John Boorman, Producers: John Boorman, Kieran Corrigan, John McDonnell, John Buchanan, Production Company: Merlin Films.

110 111 The Wind That Shakes The Barley 2006 / Director: Ken Loach, Script: Paul Laverty, Producers: Rebecca O’Brien, Andrew Lowe, Production Companies: Sixteen Films, Element Films.

Words Upon the Window Pane 1993 / Director: Mary McGuckian, Producers: Mary McGuckian, Anna J. Devlin, Script: Mary McGuckian, Production Company: Pembridge Productions.

Y You Looking at Me? 2003 / Director/Producer: Margo Harkin, Script: Teresa Godfrey, Production Company: Besom Productions

Z Zonad 2008 / Director: John Carney, Producers: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, John McDonnell, Script: John Carney, Kieran Carney, Production Company: Element Pictures

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